The first CVA fascicule devoted to a Scottish collection. The National Museums of Scotland have 200-300 vases.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (UK))

Arts & Photography

Moignard, Elizabeth

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

This second Scottish fascicule of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum makes accessible to researchers the interesting and undeservedly neglected collections of vases in the Hunterian Museum, the Burrell collection, and Kellingrove Museum. The collections include Bronze-Age, Etruscan, Archaic and Classical Greek, and South Italian material, little of which has been published before.

The Glasgow Collections: The Hunterian Museum. The Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove. The Burrell Collection (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, GB17)

The British Academy

About the Author\nElizabeth Moignard is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in Classics and the History of Art at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of fascicles 16 and 18 of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, covering the Edinburgh Collection, the Hunterian Museum, the Burrell Collection, and Kelvingrove Museum.\nThe great 6th-century BCE Attic potter-painter Exekias is acclaimed as the most accomplished exponent of late 'black-figure' art. His vases, vessels, bowls and amphorae are reproduced on postcards and in other media all over the world. Despite his importance in the history of art and archaeology, little has been written about Exekias in his own right. Elizabeth Moignard, a leading historian of classical art, here corrects that neglect by addressing her subject as more than just a painter. She positions Exekias as a remarkable but nevertheless grounded and receptive man of his age, working in an Athens that was sensitive to Homeric literature and drawing on that great corpus of poetry to explore its own emerging concepts of honour, heroism, leadership and military tradition. Discussing a range of ceramic pieces, Moignard illustrates their impact and meaning, deconstructing iconic images like the suicide of Ajax; the voyage of Dionysus surrounded by dolphins; and the killing by Achilles of the Amazon queen Penthesilea. This book is the most complete introduction to its subject to be published in English.

Master of Attic Black Figure Painting: The Art and Legacy of Exekias

Bloomsbury Academic

The great 6th-century BCE Attic potter-painter Exekias is acclaimed as the most accomplished exponent of late 'black-figure' art. His vases, vessels, bowls and amphorae are reproduced on postcards and in other media all over the world. Despite his importance in the history of art and archaeology, little has been written about Exekias in his own right. Elizabeth Moignard, a leading historian of classical art, here corrects that neglect by addressing her subject as more than just a painter. She positions Exekias as a remarkable but nevertheless grounded and receptive man of his age, working in an Athens that was sensitive to Homeric literature and drawing on that great corpus of poetry to explore its own emerging concepts of honour, heroism, leadership and military tradition. Discussing a range of ceramic pieces, Moignard illustrates their impact and meaning, deconstructing iconic images like the suicide of Ajax; the voyage of Dionysus surrounded by dolphins; and the killing by Achilles of the Amazon queen Penthesilea. This book is the most complete introduction to its subject to be published in English.

Master of Attic Black Figure Painting: The Art and Legacy of Exekias (Library of Classical Studies)

I.B.Tauris

"Greek Vases" is a discussion of the painted vases which were an ever-present but understated feature of life in the Greek world between the end of the Bronze Age and the rise of Rome, and, in the modern world, an important component of museum collections since the eighteenth century. The book uses specific illustrated examples to explore the archaeological use of vases as chronological indicators, the use of the various shapes, their scenes of myth and everyday life and what these tell us, the way in which we think about their makers, and how they are treated today as museum objects and archaeological evidence.

Greek Vases: An Introduction (Classical World)

Bristol Classical Press