Hyperallergic

Animating the Battles and Mythology of Greek Vases

Greek vases have some of the most lively of ancient art with their flat figures engaged in combat, sports, and epic mythology. A duo called Panoply has been turning these vases into animations to ...
Greek Reporter

4th-Century BC Greek Vase Reveals Hidden Repairs and Rare Pigments

A 4th-century BC Greek vase reveals ancient repairs and rare pigments, offering new clues about its origin and ancient trade ...
Cleveland.com

Newly purchased Greek vase shows Cleveland Museum of Art still committed to buying antiquities with clear provenance

“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...
Hyperallergic

Laughing at the Jokes on Ancient Greek Vases

PRINCETON, NJ — Too many Greek vase jokes are lost in translation. For example, this duel between Achilles and Hector looks serious. But tragicomic ironies abound in ancient epic. The Trojan war ...
Artnet

A Greek Vase From the British Museum Heads to Athens Amid Parthenon Marbles Debate

Chairman George Osborne revealed plans for a special exhibition of objects stolen from the British Museum. George Osborne, Chair of the British Museum (left) and interim director Sir Mark Jones ...
Artnet

A ‘5th-Century’ Vase, One of the 351 Artifacts Recently Repatriated to Greece, Is a Known Fake, Says a Forensic Archaeologist

The characters on the vase's surface were likely painted in the 1990s. The Parthenon Temple at the top of the Acropolis hill in Athens. Photo by Angelos Tzortsinis/AFP via Getty Images. Not only had ...
balkaninsight

Looted Antiquity Returned to Greece, Christies Scraps Auction of Disputed Vases

As Germany returns an antiquity looted during the war to Greece, Christie’s auction house in New York scraps auction of Greek vases linked to convicted trafficker in stolen treasures. Photo: Greek ...