Ancient Greek PotteryAncient Greek pottery has endured through the centuries; thankfully, it has given us the opportunity to discover more about the ancient Greek people and their culture, through the art work which adorns the pottery.
The ancient Greeks used marvellous imagination when painting their pottery using beautiful reds and rich browns and true golden yellows. Pattern edged battle scenes and scenes of hunting and feasts, and many more, all wonderfully adorning beautifully made urns and goblets, water vessels, and such, never modest, but wonderfully enlightening about their communities and traditions. The ancient Greek pottery scenes are said to fit into four categories;
There are 100,000 vases still in existence today and most can be seen at 26 different collections throughout the world including Austria, Germany and France. Thousands of them have been restored to almost perfection. Of course some are far too old to pepare and restore in this manner. Documentation of all the restorations is done over a certain amount of time, some taking much longer than others. Documentation includes description of the overall condition and, iconic interpretation, hand drawings and some photographs, if it can be at all possible. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, (CVA) is the research programme that documents this famous classical area of ancient art. This project was started with an idea by Edmund Pottier in Paris in 1919. Of course today, it would be wonderful, but unlikely if more ancient Greek pottery were to be discovered, although there are still many archaeological sites throughout Greece today, including some of the islands such as Kalymnos. If you would like more information regarding CVA you can go online at http://www.cvaonline.org/cva/projectpages/cva1
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