Antiquities Exhibits

The Villa Giulia Painter decorated vases in Athens during the period from about 470 to 440 B.C. He worked primarily in the red-figure technique, but he also produced some white-ground pieces. Most of his work appears to have been on large vessels, especially kraters of various forms. The Villa Giulia Painter usually favored quiet scenes, but he also included many depictions of Dionysiac religion and unusual myths. As with most ancient artists, the real name of the Villa Giulia Painter is unknown, and he is identified only by the stylistic traits of his work. Scholars named him after a krater in the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome. - Getty Museum According to classicist John Beazley, The Villa Giulia Painter's work was representative of the "academic wing of early classic vase-painting”, whose best works are distinguished by “a quiet nobility.”  Some of his work also includes a kalos or "love name" applied near a depicted character. Vase painters commonly added these term...

The Neo-Pompeiian art of Eduardo Ettore Forti now online on Wikipedia. Like many neo-classical painters of the late 19th century, Ettore Forti, became enthralled by ancient Roman life after the rediscovery of Pompeii in 1748 and the subsequent excavations. Although many of his extant paintings feature scenes of merchants selling carpets, jewelry, or antiquities to well-to-do Roman ladies, he also painted scenes of chariot  racing, musicians, city folk gossiping around a fountain, and even coaches bearing emperors careening down the roads leading back to Rome. These images can now be viewed online in a gallery on Ettore Forti's Wikipedia page. I searched the internet for over a week to collect as many images of his work as I could find and upload them to Wikimedia Commons (since they are now in the public domain). I strongly believe images bring history to life so I've been working hard to identify images in the public domain that portray ancient life and uploading them to W...