Exekias, a painter of the late Archaic period, is known for his detailed use of the black-figure technique (using black paint to paint figures on the red background of the pottery). One vase shows the ...

Pictures of some of the masterpieces of Greek vase-painting were shown, and the ludicrous figures of the archaic vases were most amusingly commented upon by the lecturer, whose remarks called ...

The vase is offered from the estate of ... Christie’s will offer more than 1,000 objects—ranging from Chinese archaic bronzes to Japanese art to modern Indian and Pakistani paintings—across ...