INTRODUCTION: PUTTING THE ANCIENT ART OF GREEK INTO MODERN LIMELIGHT,
This paper seeks to analyse the ancient art of Greek art and consequently interpret the same for modern day scholars.
STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
HYDRA WATER JAR
The body of this elegant vessel was made of hammered bronze, it is unsual for its thin walls to have survived the intact over a period of
2500 years.Typically only the heavy cast bronze handles and foot survives. Hydra were a three handled vessel used to carry water. Bronze vessels were priced their decoration. This vessels handles were decorated with reclining lions, rams, a female bust and aacathus leaves
HISTORICAL CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS
The hydria, primarily a pot for fetching water, derives its name from the Greek word for …show more content…
Of all the Greek vase shapes, the hydria probably received the most artistically significant treatment in terracotta and in bronze.
The evolution of the terracotta hydria from the seventh to the third century B.C. is well represented in the Greek collection of the
Metropolitan Museum. The earliest vessels typically have a wide body and broadly rounded shoulder. Sometime before the middle of the sixth century B.C., however, the shape evolved into one with a flatter shoulder that meets the body at a sharp angles. By the end of the sixth century B.C., a variant, known as a kalpis. With a continuous curve from the lip through the body of the vessel, it became the type favored by red-figure vase painters
Terracotta black-glaze hydriai of the late Classical period were sometimes decorated with a gilt wreath that was painted or applied in shallow relief around the vase’s neck. These gilt wreaths imitated actual gold funerary wreaths that were placed around bronze hydriai, examples of which have been found in Macedonian tombs. Hydriai from this later, consist of a body, which was hammered, and a foot and handles, which were cast and decorated with figural and floral
This paper seeks to analyse the ancient art of Greek art and consequently interpret the same for modern day scholars.
STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
HYDRA WATER JAR
The body of this elegant vessel was made of hammered bronze, it is unsual for its thin walls to have survived the intact over a period of
2500 years.Typically only the heavy cast bronze handles and foot survives. Hydra were a three handled vessel used to carry water. Bronze vessels were priced their decoration. This vessels handles were decorated with reclining lions, rams, a female bust and aacathus leaves
HISTORICAL CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS
The hydria, primarily a pot for fetching water, derives its name from the Greek word for …show more content…
Of all the Greek vase shapes, the hydria probably received the most artistically significant treatment in terracotta and in bronze.
The evolution of the terracotta hydria from the seventh to the third century B.C. is well represented in the Greek collection of the
Metropolitan Museum. The earliest vessels typically have a wide body and broadly rounded shoulder. Sometime before the middle of the sixth century B.C., however, the shape evolved into one with a flatter shoulder that meets the body at a sharp angles. By the end of the sixth century B.C., a variant, known as a kalpis. With a continuous curve from the lip through the body of the vessel, it became the type favored by red-figure vase painters
Terracotta black-glaze hydriai of the late Classical period were sometimes decorated with a gilt wreath that was painted or applied in shallow relief around the vase’s neck. These gilt wreaths imitated actual gold funerary wreaths that were placed around bronze hydriai, examples of which have been found in Macedonian tombs. Hydriai from this later, consist of a body, which was hammered, and a foot and handles, which were cast and decorated with figural and floral