12-22-2017, 10:00 PM
This project is marvellous, a joy to watch. The painting work excites great admiration but I imagine the hide work is just as skillful. Many thanks indeed for publishing photographs. The gods go with you.
These are my own notes:
The original is Vatican 16571, a type B amphora, 450-445 B.C.E. It is the name-piece or type-piece of the Achilles Painter and depicts the hero and a woman clad in a peplos bearing the libation-instruments (tentatively suggested as Briseis, the prize of Achilles taken by Agamemnon after his own prize, Chryseis, was ransomed by the prayers of her father and a plague sent by Apollo, a slight which is an essential part of the Iliad). Source is exceptionally beautiful.
These are my own notes:
The original is Vatican 16571, a type B amphora, 450-445 B.C.E. It is the name-piece or type-piece of the Achilles Painter and depicts the hero and a woman clad in a peplos bearing the libation-instruments (tentatively suggested as Briseis, the prize of Achilles taken by Agamemnon after his own prize, Chryseis, was ransomed by the prayers of her father and a plague sent by Apollo, a slight which is an essential part of the Iliad). Source is exceptionally beautiful.
Patrick J. Gray
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.