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Phrynos (potter)
Phrynos was a Greek potter, active in Athens, ''circa'' 560–545 BC. He is one of the Little masters. Three signed lip cups by him are known: *Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Inv. 03.855 *London, British Museum Inv. 1867.5-8.962 (B 424) *Torgiano, Wine Museum Inv. A 15 The three cups appear to have been painted by the same painter, the Phrynos Painter, to whom some further pieces can be ascribed. The potter Phrynos probably worked together with the potters Archikles and Glaukytes, as some of their vases bear close similarities. See also * Little-Master cup Bibliography *Oliver S. Tonks: ''A New Kalos-Artist: Phrynos '', in: American Journal of Archaeology 9, 1905, p. 288-293. *John Beazley Sir John Davidson Beazley (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was professor of classical archaeology and art at the U ...: ''Attic Black-figure Vase-pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 (2021) within its official limits, and a land area of . Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BCE. According to Greek mythology the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Masters (Greek Vase Painting)
The Little masters were a group of potters and vase painters who produced vases of the Attic black-figure style featuring well-done figures in miniature. They were active in Athens approximately 560–530 BC. They mainly produced Little-master cups: lip cups, band cups, and droop cups, but were not entirely limited to such shapes. The group includes: Potters *Anakles * Antidoros * Archeneides * Archikles * Charitaios *Chiron * Epitimos * Ergoteles * Eucheiros * Gageos * Glaukytes * Hermogenes * Hischylos * Kaulos * Kolchos * Kritomenes * Myspios * Neandros * Phrynos * Priapos * Sokles * Sondros * Taleides * Teisias * Telesias * Thrax * Thypheitides * Tlempolemos * Tleson * Xenokles * Botkin Class Vase painters * Painter of Agora P 1241 * Ano Achaïia Painter * Karithaios Painter * Centauren Painter * Neandros Painter * Oakeshott Painter * Painter of the Palermo Gorgoneion * Phrynos Painter * Sakonides * Sokles Painter * Taleides Painter * Tleson Painter * Painter of Vatican G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lip Cup
Lip cups are a type of ancient Greek Attica, Attic Little-Master cup, Little-master cups. Lip cups were produced from the middle of the sixth century BC in Athens. They resemble Gordion cup, Gordion cups, but their lips or rims were more clearly distinguished from the rest of the body. They had high feet on broad bases. Early specimens in particular feature hollow conical feet with walls of even thickness. This cup type was painted on the lip/rim. Usually, one to three figures are placed at the centre of the front and back, painted directly onto the base clay. Complete mythical scenes were rare. Often, the lip remained completely undecorated. Further decorations were painted in the handle zone. They nearly always included inscriptions between the handle palmettes, as well as a painted strip near the upper edge. Rarely, the palmettes are replaced with animal or human figures. The inscriptions can be of mottos or toasts, or simply be meaningless arrays of letters, suggesting a mostly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the list of largest art museums, 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than 1.2 million visitors a year, it is the List of most-visited art museums, 79th-most-visited art museum in the world . Founded in 1870 in Copley Square, the museum moved to its current Fenway–Kenmore, Fenway location in 1909. It is affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. History 1870–1907 The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870 and was initially located on the top floor of the Boston Athenæum. Most of its initial collection came from the Athenæum's Art Gallery. In 1876, the museum moved to a highly ornamented brick Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival building designed by John H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Museum
The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative art, decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public national museum. In 2023, the museum received 5,820,860 visitors, 42% more than the previous y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museo Del Vino (Torgiano)
The Wine Museum of Torgiano (Umbria, Italy) is a private museum, entirely dedicated to the culture of wine. Established in 1974 by Goirgio Lungarotti, founder of the Cantine Lungarotti Winery and his wife, Maria Grazia Marchetti. The museum is situated in a prominent wine-producing area. It is managed by the Lungarotti Foundation, which also oversees the Olive and Oil Museum. The foundation supports research, cultural events and exhibitions that promote the heritage and economic value of wine and olive oil. Through its archaeological, ethnographic and arts collections, the museum provides information on the role of wine in western culture, where wine has always been highly valued not only for its energetic and strengthening properties but also as a cultural product. The collections The collection is arranged in thematic areas. "In each room a number of fine and often rare objects illustrate a particular subject area, suggesting connections with other themes that enrich the ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phrynos Painter
The Phrynos Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in Athens between c. 560 and 545 BC. He was allocated the conventional name "Phrynos Painter" after the potter Phrynos, as he had painted three cups signed by the latter: *Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 03.855 *London, British Museum 1867.5-8.962 (B 424) *Torgiano, Wine Museum A 15 The London cup is considered a masterpiece of the black-figure style. The Phrynos Painter belongs to the so-called Little masters; his paintings are very fine in detail and lively in style. Although a number of vases can be ascribed to him, his style is not yet fully understood. Further works (some disputed) *Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 8192: Band cup *London, British Museum 1909.2-16.2: Fragment of a Little-master cup *London, British Museum 1948.8-15.13: Fragment of a Little-master cup *Los Angeles, Oldknow collection: Lip cup *Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 50586: Merrythought cup *Vatican, Museo Gregorian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little-Master Cup
Little-Master cups are a type of Attica, Attic Black-figure pottery, black-figure cups, produced around the middle and third quarter of the sixth century BC. Their name is based on their fine small-format decoration. Little-Master cups are later in origin than Siana cups, but both types were produced over a considerable period of time. The Little Masters (Greek vase painting), Little Masters painted only the small upper frieze above the carination of the cup, at times also the lip or handle areas. It is probably that only few of the painters of Siana cups also painted Little-Master cups. One of the first artists to introduce the Little-Master cup in Athens was Kleitias. The change in decoration went along with a lengthening of the cup foot. The dedicated painters of Little-Master cups rarely painted larger formats, whereas painters primarily specialised in large vases are known to have also painted Little-Master cups. Stylistic comparison between larger and smaller formats of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beazley
Sir John Davidson Beazley (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was professor of classical archaeology and art at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1956. Early life Beazley was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 13 September 1885, to Mark John Murray Beazley (died 1940) and Mary Catherine Beazley née Davidson (died 1918). He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Christ's Hospital, Sussex. He then attended Balliol College, Oxford where he read Literae Humaniores: he received firsts in both Mods and Greats. He won the Gaisford Prize in Greek composition for "Herodotus at the Zoo", a parody of Herodotus in which the historian visits London Zoo. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1907. While at Oxford, Beazley became a close friend of the poet James Elroy Flecker. They were perhaps lovers, as A. L. Rowse suggested in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
