Friday, March 27, 2015

Small Scenes

Eos Pursuing Tithonos
c. 460 BC

Staff photographers at the Metropolitan Museum in New York spend their days pursuing the most revealing angles to allow viewing of the small scenes from myth and life represented on the sloping external curves of the kylix, the wide shallow two-handled drinking-vessel of classical Greece.

Athletes
510 BC

Amazonomachy
c. 540 BC

Youths & Horses
c. 510-500 BC

Men & Youths
c. 480-470 BC

Stylized Eyes with Dancers
c. 520-510 BC

Youths
490 BC

Symposium
500 BC

Symposium
c. 480-470 BC

Symposium
c. 480 BC

Symposium
c. 500 BC

Youths
c. 480-470 BC