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!

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

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!

Although I’ve visited the #Athens Acropolis a million times, I never get tired of learning about new ways of representing it! Check out these woodblock prints of the Propylaea in 1925 by Yoshida Hiroshi at the @mfaboston, showing day & night!
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#greece #archaeology @ASCSAthens

By the way, enough of that Delphi nonsense, this is the real center of the universe!

While the female was buried with lots of jewelry and a knife, the male was cremated and his remains were placed in linen cloth inside a 200 year old bronze amphora from Cyprus. This seems to mimic practices described in Homer mythology for the heroes Patroclus, Achilles, & Hector