Evan Levineさんのイラストまとめ

The Greek War of Independence inspired decades of Romantic poetry & art. This scene by Eugène Delacroix (1856) is a highlight of European Philhellenism, even though it was painted three decades after the conflict had ended!

3/ The myth of the Kalydonian boar hunt has been famous since the time of Homer, and has always been a favorite scene for artists. Representations abound: from Archaic vase painters, to Roman sculptors, and even the 17th c. workshop of Peter Paul Rubens!

10/10 I’ll sign off with 2 of my favorites that show the range of Piet de Jong as an artist & the variety of objects from the Agora.

The first is a helmeted terracotta head reconstructed from many fragments & the second expertly captures shadows falling on a Pergamene capital!

5/10 This didn’t stop with pottery or painted surfaces, de Jong’s watercolors also capture the intricate details of some of the exceptional bronze objects excavated from the Agora!

4/10 Piet de Jong’s longest collaboration was with the Athenian Agora & the @ASCSAthens, where he documented three decades of incredible finds.

Unlike his work at Bronze Age palaces, this meant working with everything from burnished Neolithic pottery to Byzantine frescoes!

Like many of the best finds from that era of the Agora Excavations, this statuette of Apollo was recorded in beautiful #watercolor by the master illustrator Piet de Jong.

Without high quality color photos, this was the best way to accurately depict artifacts in color!

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@_parth_anon_ Live looks at Dimitrios and Caligula when they finally cut the canal

In addition to tons of obsidian tools on the surface of the site, the excavations revealed some wonderful stone working traditions, like this marble vessel with perforated lugs for hanging!

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The most iconic objects from Kephala are these scoops, with their characteristic handles and incised decoration. Excavated from from the cemetery, similar vessels have been found at Sesklo in Thessaly & in a very early grave in the Athenian Agora!

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Next up is this beautiful 17th c painting of Cleopatra by Elisabetta Sirani. Even though she died at only 27, Sirani cemented herself as one of the few major female figures in baroque art. Her father was an assistant to Guido Reni, whose work clearly influenced her own!