The small terracotta figures from Tanagra almost without exception represent noble women who corresponded to the ideal of beauty and the fashion of that time.
Greece. Women after the figures from Tanagra and Asia Minor.
Category: Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek costume and fashion history. Military, nobility, peasants, decoration, culture
Auguste Racinet. The Costume History Hardcover – Illustrated, November 4, 2015
by Françoise Tétart-Vittu (Author)
Racinet's Costume History is an invaluable reference for students, designers, artists, illustrators, and historians; and a rich source of inspiration for anyone with an interest in clothing and style.
Greco-Roman Antiquities. Pompeian style. Decorative Architecture.
THE purely decorative architecture, which we find represented on the inner walls of the apartments in Herculaneum and Pompeii, seems to belong less to the domain of reality than to that of fancy.
Ancient Greece. Table manners. Meals, Banquet, Table Equipment.
Banquet with hetaera and dancers. Drinking vessels: Rhyton. Drinking horns. The Kylix, Kalpis, Hydria, Phiale, Skyphos, Kyathos, Kylix, Kymbe.
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World Paperback – December 7, 2021
by Virginia Postrel (Author)
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)
Greek Military of Antiquity. Different types of Chariots and Armor.
War, race and triumphal chariots. Greek soldier. Leader in full armor. Different types of the Greek helmet and weapons.
Literature
Couture: then and now Clothes define people. A person's clothing, whether it's a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential key to his or her culture, class, personality, or even religion. The Kyoto Costume Institute recognizes the importance of understanding clothing sociologically, historically, and artistically.
Ancient Greece Coiffures. Hairstyles & Hair Fashions of Greek antiquity.
Ancient Greece. Hairstyles and Hair Fashions. Hats and Head-dresses.
Antigone and Ismene. Greek mythology.
Antigone and Ismene. Related Posts:Marc Antony and the dead Caesar. Shakespeare’s Julius…Edmund Spenser. The Fairy Queen. Florimel and the Witch.Electra waits for the return of Orestes.
Archimedes of Syracuse. Mathematician of antiquity.
Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek χρχιμήδης Archimēdēs) born around 287 BC probably in Syracuse; Died in 212 BC, was a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the most important mathematicians of antiquity.
Embroidery from the Caucasus, Greece, Indian Melicete tribe.
FROM among the few but remarkable specimens of art-work man ship contributed to the Exhibition by the Caucasian Agricultural Society of Tiflis, we have selected a saddle-cloth from Kabardah, a district to the east of Mount Elbruz, the highest summit of the great Caucasian mountain-range. Circassian embroidered Saddle-Cloth. Embroidered dress, Greece. Hand-work of the North-American Indian Melicete tribe. International exhibition, 1862.
Electra waits for the return of Orestes.
Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, mourning the fate of her father, waits for the return of Orestes, her brother, as the avenger of his father’s death.
Greek tragedy and comedy masks
Greek tragedy and comedy masks Greek pottery Related Posts:Masks. Design and drawings of Offterdinger. Art deco…No masks by Kiyotoki-ShimomuraMarc Antony and the dead Caesar. Shakespeare’s Julius…
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World Paperback – December 7, 2021
by Virginia Postrel (Author)
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)
