ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Funerary Art, Kylix, Lapiths
17 Oct 2013
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Holes on the bottom signify libations made on the woman"s tomb could drip from the amphora into the ground. Swelling curves embodies form of a women. Painted in geometric style mostly covered in geometric pattern are mourners grief. Different kind of funerary art not looking at art for the afterlife. Amphora with meander pattern and funeral, ca. Isn"t about passage to underworld, but it is about a funeral and social status, memory, and fame in this life: this is a key shift. Not starting from a point of crude art exceptionally sophisticated object. Black-figured amphora; exekias, achilles, and ajax playing dice, ca. 540-530 bce: would hold wine, decorated in black-figured technique, used black glaze on pottery, paint figures with this glaze, story about great hero achilles, ajax in a moment of repose before the battle. Concentration is shown visually by converging diagonals: completely absorbed in the game, game as a metaphor for warfare.
