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Athenian black figure vases : a handbook / John Boardman.

By: Boardman, John, 1927-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: World of art.Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1978Description: 252 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500201382.Subject(s): Vases, Black-figured -- Greece | Vase-painting, GreekDDC classification: 738.382
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Athenian black figure vases bear the work of consummate artists, like Exekias, who depicted on them scenes of myth and everday life which deepen our knowledge and understanding of Greek antiquity.

John Boardman enables the reader to study the many aspects of the vases, and to grasp the essential style of a painter or group of painters, without having to consult a number of expensive, and not always easily available, publications.

A final section is devoted to the mythological scenes and other decorative features of the vases.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.