The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian AgoraThe archives of the American School excavations in the Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolors and drawings - well over 400 - by Piet de Jong, one of the best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes, people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running archaeological projects in Greece.The aim of this volume is to bring these illustrations out of the storage drawers and to assemble in color a representative sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong's contributions. Along the way, this book tells the story of the Agora excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship. It includes essays by 16 scholars currently working at the Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are studying - from Neolithic poetry to the Late Byzantine and post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon. |
Contents
Le style cest lhomme Piet de Jong as Artist | 33 |
Neolithic through Middle Helladic Pottery | 67 |
The Athenian Agora from the End of the Bronze | 93 |
Archaic and Classical Odds and Ends | 155 |
Athenian BlackFigured and BlackGloss Pottery | 175 |
Attic RedFigured and WhiteGround Pottery | 203 |
Bronzes and Bronze Sculpture | 221 |
Terracotta and Faience Figurines | 253 |
Roman Mosaics | 269 |
Late Byzantine and PostByzantine Frescoes from Ayios Spyridon | 287 |
Epilogue | 311 |
Common terms and phrases
6th century b.c. Acropolis Agora Excavations Agora VIII Agora XIV Agora XXX amphora archaeological Archaic Athenian Agora Athens black-figure black-gloss Blegen bowl Bronze burial Byzantine chariot color Corinth Corinthian decoration depicted deposit diameter Dionysos Early Iron Age Euthymides Exekias Figure fragments frescoes grave Greece Greek handles Height Hellenistic Herakles Hood Horiz illustrated Iron Age Jong’s kantharos Knossos krater kylix Late Geometric Late Helladic lekythos Leslie Shear mosaic Museum Mycenaean neck Nestor at Pylos Nikolaos Platon oinochoe orientation Painter Painting Palace of Nestor Papadopoulos period photograph Piet de Jong plate post-Byzantine pottery preserved Protoattic Pylos pyxis R. S. Young reconstruction red-figure restored Saint Spyridon scene School of Classical sgraffito shape shows side sima skyphos Slope Stoa of Attalos Talcott terracotta Tholos Thompson tion Type 2a vase Vert vessel votive votive deposit wall Watercolor by Piet wine Туре 2а