ArchaiOptix

Dear visitor,
welcome to my picture gallery.
The gallery contains a large number of pictures. It takes a few seconds for the site to build up (even after the green sign "gallery slideshow" in the upper right corner shows up).

Old Satyr Marsyas with ivy wreath

About me:
I am teaching Classics (Ancient Greek and Latin), Theology, modern Greek and Italian. I am particularly interested in Archaeology and History of Ancient Art. One of my other hobbies is photography. Combining these two hobbies I take lots of pictures in museums and archaeological sites and catalogue the photos according to the scientific literature.

About this picture gallery:
Under the relevant categories (of museums and artists) and more systematically on this user page I share a selection of my photos of ancient art.
The site is under construction since January 2020.
I thank all directors of museums who permit photography of the exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes, thus spreading the knowledge of their treasures in a wider public. I hope that my photos published on wikimedia commons act also as an incentive to visit these museums and admire the works of art directly. Therefore editing the photos I refrain from replacing the background, so that the objects can be seen as displayed in the museum. If you intend to use one of my photos for commercial aims, I would recommend you to contact the museum.

The structure of this picture gallery:
material / object category
→ artistic epoch / date
→→ place of production / findspot
→→→ workshop / artist / object type

Transcription of the letters in Greek inscriptions
Epsilon = E
Eta (if written as H) = E_
Theta = TH
Xi = X
Omikron = O
Ypsilon = Y / U in diphthongs
Phi = PH
Chi = CH
Psi = PS
Omega = O_
Digamma = F Koppa = Q Spiritus asper (if written as H) = H
Spiritus asper (if written as superscript c: rarely!) = c

Clicking on the bold blue headings you will arrive at the subpages of the specific object categories containing already a larger number of pictures.

sculpture (stone statues, reliefs and figurines, bronze statues) and stone vessels: neolithic and bronze age

ancient Greek coins

ancient painting

mummy portraits

Cretan pottery from the beginnings to the end of the bronze age

Greek Geometric painted pottery

Ancient Greek plastic pottery aryballoi and alabastra in the orientalizing, archaic and classical period

Corinthian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

Boeotian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

East Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

West Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

Laconian painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic period

Protoattic vases

Athenian black figure vase painters I From the Pioneers to the Tyrrhenian Group

Athenian black figure vase painters II From Lydos to the Affecter

Athenian black figure vase painters III From the circle of the Lysippides Painter to the circle of the Nikoxenos and Eucharides Painters

Athenian black figure vase painters IV other work grouped according to shapes

Athenian black figure vase painters V Attic black figure vases not yet attributed to a specific painter or group or class

Athenian red figure vase painters I From the earliest pot painters to the Pioneer Group

Athenian red figure vase painters II Early cup painters

Athenian red figure vase painters III From the Berlin and Kleophrades Painters to late archaic painters of smaller vases

Athenian red figure vase painters IV Late archaic cup painters

Athenian red figure vase painters V Early classical painters of large pots and the Earlier Mannerists

Athenian red figure vase painters VI From the Niobid Painter to early classical painters of cups and skypoi

Athenian red figure vase painters VII Classical pot painters

Athenian red figure vase painters VIII Classical painters of lekythoi and cups and skyphoi

Athenian red figure vase painters IX From the late fifth to the fourth century

Athenian red figure vase painters X Attic red figure head vases not attributed to a specific painter

Red figure vase painters of Lucania

Red figure vase painters of Poseidonia (Paestum)

The content-box underneath and the headings of level 2 show the object categories being in the planning stage or under construction.

sculpture (stone statues, reliefs and figurines, bronze statues) and stone vesselsEdit

bronze (figurines and vessels)Edit

weapons and toolsEdit

Greek coinsEdit

Roman coinsEdit

gold, silver, jewellery, sealsEdit

late archaic / 530-490 BCEdit

Egypt (findspot unknown)Edit

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Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(03)
Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(04)
Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(05)
Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(06)

glassEdit

wood, bone and ivoryEdit

terracottaEdit

fayenceEdit

plasterEdit

mosaicEdit

paintingEdit

mummy masks and egyptian sarcophagsEdit

mummy portraitsEdit

textilesEdit

potteryEdit

Cretan pottery from the beginnings to the end of the bronze ageEdit

Ancient Greek plastic pottery aryballoi and alabastra in the orientalizing, archaic and classical periodEdit

Corinthian PotteryEdit

East Greek painted pottery in the orientalizing and archaic periodEdit

Protoattic vasesEdit

Attic black figure vase paintersEdit

Athenian red figure vase paintersEdit

Red figure vase painters of ApuliaEdit

arranged according to: Arthur Dale Trendall, Alexander Cambitoglou, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia (RVAp), Oxford 1978, with supplements. The abbreviation in the file title refers to chapter and vase number of RVAp.

1. the Sisyphus GroupEdit

2. the beginnings of the ornate styleEdit

3. the Tarporley GroupEdit

4. followers of the Tarporley Painter (A)Edit

5. followers of the Tarporley Painter (B): the Hopööin-Lecce workshopEdit

6. followers of the Tarporley Painter (C): the Karlsruhe B 9 - Dijon GroupEdit

7. early ornate vasesEdit

8. the Iliupersis Painter, the Painter of Athens 1714 and their associatesEdit

9. followers of the plain style tradition (A)Edit

10. followers of the plain style tradition (B)Edit

11. opera minoraEdit

12. the Snub-Nose Painter and his close associatesEdit

13. the Varrese Painter and his close associatesEdit

14. followers of the Snub-Nose and Varrese PaintersEdit

15. between the Iliupersis and the Lycurgus Painters - the rise of the baroque styleEdit

16. the Lycurgus Painter and his circleEdit

17. followers of the Snub-Nose and Varrese Painters in the tradition of the plain styleEdit

18. the circle of the Darius and Unterworld Painters: (A) larger vasesEdit

19. the circle of the Darius and Unterworld Painters: (B) hydriaiEdit

20. the circle of the Darius and Unterworld Painters: (C) painters in the tradition of the plain style and their followersEdit

21. smaller vases associated with the Gioia del Colle Painter and the circle of the Darius and Underworld Painters: (A) vases with figured scenesEdit

22. smaller vases associated with the Gioia del Colle Painter and the circle of the Darius and Underworld Painters: (B) vases normally decorated with headsEdit

23. the Patera Painter and his associatesEdit

24. the Amphorae GroupEdit

25. the Ganymede Painter and associated vasesEdit

26. smaller vases associated with the Patera and Ganymede PaintersEdit

27. the Baltimore and Stoke-on-Trent Painters and vases associated with themEdit

Baltimore PainterEdit

Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 01
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 02
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 03
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 04
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 05
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 06
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 07
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 08
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 09
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 10
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 11
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 12
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 13
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 14
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 15
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 16
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 17
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 18
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 19
Baltimore Painter - RVAp 27-17extra - underworld - naiskos of young warrior - Roma SABAP-RVEm - 20