Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
White Funerary Lekythos
Image View:
Overall view, with funerary stele portrayed on front
Creator:
Sabouroff Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 475-ca. 450 BCE)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Etrusco (Villa Giulia) (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazzale di Villa Giulia, 9
GPS:
41.918375 12.477657
Date:
ca. 450 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Ancient Greek
Style Period:
Classical; White-ground
Work Type 1:
lekythos
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
terracotta with white slip and pigments
Technique:
fabrication attributes: ceramics; painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
death or burial; funerary art; decorative arts
Description:
Four-color painting using black and diluted glaze and earth colors was a technical development of ca. 500-ca. 475 BCE. About the middle of the 5th century BCE a new polychrome technique of lekythos painting using matt colors was introduced; the Sabouroff Painter was apparently the initiator of this new painting technique. In the second half of the 5th century BCE White-ground was used exclusively in sepulchral contexts and was largely confined to lekythoi, generally with paintings of grave scenes. When the production of funerary lekythoi ceased ca. 400 BCE, Attic White-ground painting also came to an end. This lekythos was designed to contain oil and ointments for funerary functions and as an offering itself. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-E-VG-WFL-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

White Funerary Lekythos