This volume, highlighting the development of Greek art from the 
dawn of the Iron Age to the age of Alexander, features forty-four 
exceptional ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Italic vases. These 
painted vessels—monuments to the search by Greek artists for the 
means of realizing on a small scale, on a two-dimensional surface, 
accurate renderings of the human form, human spaces, and divine 
narratives—are masterpieces of the potter's craft and the painter's 
art.

    The Greek artists represented—including the Athenians: 
Andokides, the Berlin Painter, Epiktetos, the Painter of the Madrid 
Fountain, the Tarquinia Painter, as well as the Baltimore Painter of 
Magna Graeci—are some of the masters of the medium. The varied 
types of vessels span the ancient Greek and Italian world both 
chronologically and geographically.

Reproduced in ninety-three color plates and accompanied by 
critical texts documenting each vase and interpreting the meaning 
of the painted subjects, the vases commend themselves not only 
for their quality and excellent state of preservation, but for their 
range of imagery. Many are published here for the first time.

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Co-published with the Meadows Museum