10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LECYTHI»
Discover the use of
lecythi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lecythi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Johns Hopkins University Circular
J Among the monuments of art that throw light on Athenian belief and custom with
reference to death, burial, and the future life, and thus serve vividly to illustrate
the literary evidence on these matters, the so-called White Lecythi from Attica, ...
Among the monuments of art that throw light on Athenian belief and custom with
reference to death, burial, and the future life, and thus serve vividly to illustrate
the literary evidence on these matters, the so-called White Lecythi from Attica, ...
Johns Hopkins University, 1886
3
American journal of archaeology
In some vases the gray may be due to the heat and smoke of the funeral pile, but
in such cases the color is not uniform. Attic White Lecythi. — {Athenian Lekythoi
with Outline Drawing in Glaze Varnish an a White Ground, by Arthur Fairbanks.
4
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
With these vases were found a Cypriote jug, the three-branched foot of an iron
candelabrum, three small black lecythi with red shoulders (one of them with
alternate dots and dashes round the shoulder), a bronze mirror, and no less than
seven ...
5
A catalogue of the Greek vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum, ...
120 — 137. But on the more characteristic examples of Naucratite ware (Fragm.
17 — 32) we see a development of outline drawing, and even of polychromatic
colouring, which was later to reappear in the Attic white lecythi (Nos. 139 — 143).
Fitzwilliam Museum, Ernest Arthur Gardner, 1897
After a very brief Introduction, setting forth concisely the distinguishing features of
the classes ix — xvi, Dr. Fairbanks proceeds with the main part of his work,
bringing the extant white lecythi (which with him are consistently "lekythoi"), one
after ...
7
A Handbook of Greek Archaeology
Mythological subjects are, however, sometimes chosen.1 Among the vases
which show the white-ground technique, the lecythi have a special importance
and form a group by themselves. Their number is very great, and the fact that
their ...
Harold North Fowler, James Rignall Wheeler, Gorham Phillips Stevens, 1909
motive occurs on some very beautiful terracotta reliefs, and also on some of the
painted lecythi of Attica, and Eretria in Euboea. Some recently discovered lecythi
in the Central Museum at Athens have a different method of representation of the
...
9
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
So whereas high-quality grave-steles with single figures in relief remain in vogue
in the Cyclades and Thessaly, until c.430 Attic funerary art is restricted to
whiteground lecythi: small, clay oil-flasks usually painted with domestic or
mourning ...
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow, 2012
10
Literature, Music, Fine Arts
Schmaltz, Bernhard Studies on Attic Marble Lecythi ["Untersuchungen zu den
attisdicn Marmorlekythen"] Berlin: Gcbr. Mann Verlag, 1970; 159 pp., 48 tables In
contrast to funerary reliefs and painted white-surface lecythi in clay, the two roost
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