Statement, ‘To call an artifact is like referring to the SistineĬeiling as a painting.’ A significant find? Uh, yes. Todeschini and Watson quote art historian Hovers in the following grandiloquent

Last important piece before this one had been unearthed as long ago as 1840’. The greatest masters in Greek vase painting.

Let me digress: Euphronios is one of two or three of Liquid, was “thrown” by the potter Euxitheos and then decorated exquisitely by The krater, large enough to hold seven galleons of When the tombaroli (tomb robbers) pulled the The illegal excavation of an Etruscan tomb in the area of Greppe Sant’Angelo in Here marks the moment when the vase first set foot on the road to salvation. This epic scene majestically drapes the surface of the infamous Euphronios krater, stolen in the 70’s from one of Cerveteri’s necropolis’ and reappearing years later on the squeaky-clean shelf of a New York museum.

The XVI canto of Homer’s Iliad describes a touching episode of the Trojan War: the death of Sarpedon, son of Zeus and the king of the Lycians.

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