Visual Arts History 2247E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kerameikos, Krater
27 Sep 2017
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Reality is being altered by the artists armed warriors: reference of heroic tales. Display of status claim ancestry to the ancient heroes. Could have been used or could have been created for burial. Some representations of the funerary procession show only male mourners unrealistic. Also they are all nude and heroic unrealistic. Really trying to mimic the heroic stories. On the right male grave marker krater. No women could be purely trojan representation. All the men are nude heroic. Men all have their hands in the same position how they show grief. Women are absent in the procession too. Chariot drivers didn"t dri(cid:448)e your o(cid:449)n cart if you (cid:449)ere rich. Warrior carries a dagger and had a helmet odd for a funeral. All of the empty space is filled in with geometric shapes. Shroud is over the body no dimension. The dead man is larger than life death gave him immortality and heroism.
