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Sunday, August 29, 2010

19th Century Neoclassical Drawings



Drawings from around 1800 of neoclassical subjects, they might be derived from Greek vases or they might be from Roman art which was influenced by Greek vase painting.


The drawings are for sale on Ebay.

Hercules in his Lion Suit from the Tufts website.

Hercules in a lion skin from Marjan Wadarki's website.




Hercules and Athena at the Trinity College Dublin Website.

Helios, the sun god from the Classical Mythology Course at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


 
Theseus and the Minotaur, Orestes at Delphi




Dionysos

 


Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th Centuries BC: A Handbook (World of Art) Comic Angels: And Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure, and Narrative: Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period: A Handbook (World of Art)

Early Greek Vase Painting, 11th-6th Centuries BC: A Handbook (World of Art)

Comic Angels: And Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

Greek Vase Painting: Form, Figure, and Narrative: Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period: A Handbook (World of Art)

Roman Art Roman Art Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (Oxford History of Art)How to Read Greek Vases (Metropolitan Museum of Art) [Paperback]

Roman Art
Roman Art
Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (Oxford History of Art)
How to Read Greek Vases (Metropolitan Museum of Art)


Women in Ancient Greece Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in TranslationThe Greek Body
Women in Ancient Greece
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
The Greek Body

More images Vroma.org

Wikipedia page red figure painting

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The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form
The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form A republication of Dr. Gottfried Schadow's famous work in which thirty plates demonstrate the proportions of the human form. It is based on the pioneering work of the Greek Sculptor Polycletus. Amazon.com

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The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting

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Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body

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In 1683 Gerard Audran produced Les Proportions du Corps Humain which was a careful rendition of the famous statues of antiquity including careful measurements of each. Amazon.com

The Art Student's Guide To External Anatomy

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