User:ArchaiOptix
Dear visitor,
welcome to my picture gallery.
The gallery contains a large number of pictures. It takes a few seconds for the site to build up (even after the green sign "gallery slideshow" in the upper right corner shows up).
About me:
I am teaching Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin), Theology, modern Greek and Italian. I am particularly interested in Archaeology and History of Ancient Art. One of my other hobbies is photography. Combining these two hobbies I take lots of pictures in museums and archaeological sites and catalogue the photos according to the scientific literature.
About this picture gallery:
Under the relevant categories (of museums and artists) and more systematically on this user page I share a selection of my photos of ancient art.
The site is under construction since January 2020.
I thank all directors of museums who permit photography of the exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes, thus spreading the knowledge of their treasures in a wider public. I hope that my photos published on wikimedia commons act also as an incentive to visit these museums and admire the works of art directly. Therefore editing the photos I refrain from replacing the background, so that the objects can be seen as displayed in the museum. If you intend to use one of my photos for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum.
The structure of this picture gallery:
material / object category
→ artistic epoch / date
→→ place of production / findspot
→→→ workshop / artist / object type
Transcription of the letters in Greek inscriptions
Epsilon = E
Eta (if written as H) = E_
Theta = TH
Xi = X
Omikron = O
Ypsilon = Y / U in diphthongs
Phi = PH
Chi = CH
Psi = PS
Omega = O_
Digamma = F
Koppa = Q
Spiritus asper (if written as H) = H
Spiritus asper (if written as superscript c: rarely!) = c
Clicking on the bold blue headings you will arrive at the subpages of the specific object categories containing already a larger number of pictures.
Cretan pottery from the beginnings to the end of the bronze age
Greek Geometric painted pottery
Corinthian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period
Boeotian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period
East Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period
West Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period
Laconian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period
Athenian black figure vase painters I From the Pioneers to the Tyrrhenian Group
Athenian black figure vase painters II From Lydos to the Affecter
Athenian black figure vase painters IV other work grouped according to shapes
Athenian red figure vase painters I From the earliest pot painters to the Pioneer Group
Athenian red figure vase painters II Early cup painters
Athenian red figure vase painters IV Late archaic cup painters
Athenian red figure vase painters VII Classical pot painters
Athenian red figure vase painters VIII Classical painters of lekythoi and cups and skyphoi
Athenian red figure vase painters IX From the late fifth to the fourth century
Athenian red figure vase painters X Attic red figure head vases not attributed to a specific painter
Red figure vase painters of Lucania
Red figure vase painters of Poseidonia (Paestum)
The content-box underneath and the headings of level 2 show the object categories being in the planning stage or under construction.
sculpture (stone statues, reliefs and figurines, bronze statues) and stone vessels[edit]
bronze (figurines and vessels)[edit]
weapons and tools[edit]
Greek coins[edit]
Roman coins[edit]
gold, silver, jewellery, seals[edit]
late archaic / 530-490 BC[edit]
Egypt (findspot unknown)[edit]
glass[edit]
wood, bone and ivory[edit]
terracotta[edit]
fayence[edit]
plaster[edit]
mosaic[edit]
painting[edit]
mummy masks and egyptian sarcophags[edit]
mummy portraits[edit]
textiles[edit]
pottery[edit]
Cretan pottery from the beginnings to the end of the bronze age[edit]
Ancient Greek plastic pottery aryballoi and alabastra in the orientalizing, archaic and classical period[edit]
Corinthian Pottery[edit]
East Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period[edit]
Protoattic vases[edit]
Attic black figure vase painters[edit]
Athenian red figure vase painters[edit]
Red figure vase painters of Apulia[edit]
arranged according to: Arthur Dale Trendall, Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia (RVAp), Oxford 1978, with supplements. The abbreviation in the file title refers to chapter and vase number of RVAp.