Wall‐ and Panel‐painting

• Published in: A Companion to Greek Art pp. 171 - 185
• Main Author: Plantzos, Dimitris
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 30.01.2013
• Subjects: architectural facades, in Greek paintings of the advanced Hellenistic; Corinthian styles, detected in painted metopes; four fundamental colors, of elements of earth, air, water, fire; murals in Macedonian tombs, and Late Classical painting; painted tombstones, into ways painting evolved in the Hellenistic; painters of Greek, Roman world, a ‘fine art’ of humble, disregarded artisans; Plato and Aristotle, on art as mimesis, ‘imitation’ of reality; Tetrachromy, Polychromy, Skiagraphia, four‐color palette as ‘tetrachromy’; wall‐ and panel‐painting, for the Greeks, as a highly regarded art form; wall‐paintings in fresco, plaster applied onto stone

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Techniques and Pigments Tetrachromy, Polychromy, Skiagraphia From Mimesis to Visual Trickery The Evidence from Macedonian Tombs Painting at the Time of Alexander and Later Skenographia and the Invention of the Landscape Art Criticism Further Readin...