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Ancient Greek Paintings
Title: Ancient Greek Paintings
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 1258 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ancient Greek Paintings
Though the Greeks have been known throughout the world for their excellent sculptures and amphorae, they must also be credited for mastering panel painting. The main reason that they are not more widely known of is the plain fact that many have either been destroyed or depleted throughout the years. Some of the most complete surviving examples of early Greek panel painting are scenes of banqueting and diving painted by an unknown artist for a …showed first 75 words of 1258 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1258 total…only a handful of painters' names from the Archaic period, including Cleanthes of Corinth, Boularchos, and Cimon. For the most part scholars can only guess at how these paintings looked, but some evidence survives in scraps of paintings by unknown artists that decorated the walls of a temple at Isthmía, near Corinth; in painted terracotta metopes from Thérmon in western Greece; and in a few wooden and clay plaques from Corinth and Athens.
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