#greekpottery
Now here’s #ryangosling with a new set of #tats - this time he’s got #ancient #greekpottery inspired #inkwork on his neck, which leaves him with two greek #warriors placing a bet around his #adamsapple.
How hard core #hipster sh*t is that!?
#greekvase #potteryart #ancientgreece #tattoo #tattooideas #drawing #tanjamirkovicillustrations
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- Kylix with Dionysos and a satyr
- Greek; Late Archaic Period, ca. 490–480 BC
- Makron Painter
- Greece, Attica, Athens (Place of Manufacture)
- Ceramic, Red Figure
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Dionysos holding a kantharos and a vine, and a satyr pouring from an oinochoë. At the left the inscription “The boy is handsome” (HΟΠΑΙSΚΑLΟS / HO PAIS KALOS). The whole surrounded by a circle decorated with a meander. Exterior painted black without decoration. Repaired and painted over.
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- Terracotta Lekythos: Dionysos with a Satyr and Goat
- Greek, Attic; Classical, ca. 480 BC
- Attributed to the Workshop of the Bowdoin Painter
- Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The decoration on the body is executed in a combination of black silhouette and outline drawing on a white ground. Such works, known as semioutline lekythoi, are associated with the workshops of two closely related artists, the Bowdoin Painter and the Athena Painter. The technique represents a modification of black-figure at a time when red-figure was gaining popularity.
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- Red-Figure Lekythos with Dionysos
- Attic; 470 BC
- Attributed to the Painter of the Yale
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- Black Figure Pitcher (oinochoe) with Dionysos
- Greek; Late Archaic Period, ca. 500–490 BC
- Workshop of the Athena Painter
- Greece, Attica, Athens (Place of Manufacture)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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