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History of Fashion (FAD 144)

Cross cultural influences: global exchange of goods, legacy, crossing of boundaries, borrowing, cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. (Egypt and Greece)

Ancient Greece and surrounding areas

A Greek vase painting depicting four figures, two men and two women. The women have their hair covered and are wearing long, pleated dresses with shawls drapped over their shoulders. The men have long hair and beards and are wearing long pleated robes and have a folded cloth draped over one shoulder.

Creator

Oreithyia Painter by Jahn

Title

Athenian Red-figure Amphora, Neck, Beazley Archive Vase #206422

Work Type

Greek Vase Painting Styles

Date

500-450 BCE

Location

Vulci, Etruria, Italy

Description

A,B: Boreas carrying off Oreithyia (Both named, Boras, Oreithya), Kekrops and Erechtheus (both named, Kekros, Erechses ?), women, some fleeing

 

Source

Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl Hervorragender Vasenbilder. Mit Unterstutzung Aus Dem Kgl. Bayerischen Akademie Der Wissensch, A. Furtwangler und K. Reichhold. Serie II, plate 95, text p.186

Rights

Williams College Archives and Special Collections, Creative Commons License

Creative Commons License

 

A painted Greek vase depicting a satyr, a man, and a woman. The satyr has goat horns and a tail and is otherwise naked. The man wears a tunic with a long cloak. The woman wears a long dress with a garment that resembles a sleeveless shirt on top of it.

Creator

Signed by Andokidesas potter; Attributed to the Andokides Painter, for red-figure decoration; Attributed to the Lysippides Painter, for black-figure decoration 

Culture

Greek, Attic

Title

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Reverse

On the body, Dionysos between satyr and maenad; on the lip, black-figure on white ground, Herakles and the Nemean Lion

Date

ca. 530 B.C.

Material

Terracotta

Period

Archaic

Repository

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

License

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A greek painted vase showing four women making wine. The women have their hair tied up and are wearing long dresses and shawls.

Creator

Attributed to the: Attributed to the, Orchard Painter

Culture

Greek, Attic

Title

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

side A

Work Type

Column-krater

Date

ca. 460 B.C.

Material

Terracotta

Period

Classical

 

Repository

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

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Etruria

A sculpture of woman with her hair pulled back. She wears a long tunic and cloak.

Culture

Italy, Etruscan, Archaic period

Title

Statuette of Sacrificing Woman

Work Type

Sculpture

Date

600-480 BC

Material

bronze

Repository

The Cleveland Museum of Art

License

Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0) Creative Commons: Free Reuse (CC0)

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Rome

Stone sculpture of a man and a woman. The man wears a long robe with short hair. The woman has a veil over her head and wears a long dress with a pleated hem and a thin shawl around her shoulders.

Title

Funerary Relief from via Statilia

Centrale Montemartini; Musei Capitoline

General View

Work Type

art museums; funerary sculpture

Date

2d quarter 1st century BCE

Society of Architectural Historians SAHARA collection

Source

Information: http://www.centralemontemartini.org/en/il_museo/storia_del_museo

Photographer: Upton, Dell

Rights

(c) Dell Upton. Images may be freely used for research, instruction, and publication, with credit to Dell Upton.