describing the journey of Etruscan objects from creation to use

Two essays detail recently developed tools of scholarship: the Getty Research Portal and the immense collection of Max Hutzel’s photographs of Italian art and architecture

Avinoam Shalem

Most vase-painters working in the red-figure technique preferred the rounded form of the kalpis

Railroad Vision illustrates the parallel histories of railroads and photography—from a photograph of George Stephenson's steam engine Locomotion

Greek Geometric Horse - Sculpture Reproduction rabbit describing the journey of EtruscanAround 900 BC a change in style took place in ancient Greek art. Both in decorations and in the art of sculpting geometric patterns emerged, which were very much unlike the pre Hellenic style, which was customary at the time. Painters began to decorate their pottery with stylized, sketched silhouettes, a style which soon was adopted by sculptures. Pre eminently, a horse was suitable for this innovative, geometric simplification. Every bronze foundry