Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting

by Emily Vermeule and Vassos Karageorghis

Here is a vividly written and fully illustrated assessment of the figured decoration on Late Bronze Age vessels from the Greek mainland, Cyprus, and the Aegean islands. It will become a standard source on the Mycenaean imagination. Emily Vermeuele and Vassos Karageorghis describe the hunting scenes, chariots, sphinxes and griffins, bulls and birds, people dancing or fighting, and cult scenes on Mycenaean pottery. They analyze forms and styles, sources...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674596501
• ISBN13: 9780674596504
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.3" x 12.3"