So important to the Greeks as they moved towards
And it allowed for theĭetailed representation of the human body that was Its is a stella example of attic red figure vase painting a style that we believe He thought theĭrawing was the quality of a Picasso of a Leonardo de Vinci.
The director of the Metropolitan said that this vase was so important it would rewrite art history. Metropolitan museum of Art paid a million dollars for this vase. Which is why this pot was so sort after when it came on into the market. The individual lines would have been laid down with a syringe to make a bead of colorĪnd we're seeing it in a state that is not very different from the way it would have been seen when it was first madeĪbout 2500 years ago. Incredible when you consider that Euphronios would have painted this very quickly before There are these beautiful palmettes where the drawing remains In the decorative banding that surrounds the major frieze This pot is inĮxceptionally good condition and that's especially clear So you can imagine them drinking wine talking about Hypnose and There is no such thing as reading out loud in the ancient world. And the viewers of this pot would have read these texts out loud. Hermes the messenger god who is guiding Sarpedon And you can tell Euphronios must have been very proud of this face because he signed it right across the top on one side of the head of Signal Greek way representing the face as sereneĮven in the face of death and imperfect profile. And the painters expressed that not only for the beauty of the human body the definition of the musculature but also in a particularly That actually the best time to die was when you are Him up so that his torso is exposed to us so that we can see the beautiful delicate So Zeus has sent two messengers the wing deitys Sleep and Death to take Sarpedon on back home. Greeks were afraid of if they died on the battle field it was that their bodies Sarpedon, a son of Zeus hasĭied in the battle field and one thing that the This vase isĭecorated by Euphronios with the scene from the Trojan war. (soft piano music) - When I was in high school one of my favorite objects to visit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a Greek vase by an artist
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