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Mycenaean pictorial vase painting / Emily Vermeule, Vassos Karageorghis.
Penn Museum Library NK4646 .V47 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vermeule, Emily.
- Karageorghis, Vassos, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vase-painting, Mycenaean.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 417 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1982.
- Summary:
- Emily Vermeule and Vassos Karageorghis describe the hunting scenes, chariots, sphinxes and griffins, bulls and birds, people dancing or fighting, and cult scenes on Mycenaean pottery. They analyze forms and styles, sources and influences, and the development of conventions. They relate what is known about the painters and their workshops, and the overseas trade. A catalogue of the 700 remaining whole and broken examples, now in museums around the world, is appended. Over 950 illustrations provide a comprehensive view of the art.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 189-191.
- ISBN:
- 0674596501
- OCLC:
- 6532328
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