Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art

H. Harvey Alan Shapiro, Carlos A. Picón, Gerry D. Scott, III

San Antonio Museum of Art, 1995 - Art - 285 pages

The San Antonio Museum of Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities in the southern United States. The first in a projected series of catalogs of the Museum's collection, this volume presents the Museum's extensive holdings of Greek and South Italian vases. Ranging in date from the Minoan and Mycenaean eras to the final flowering of vase painting in the Greek colonial states of southern Italy, the vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art reflect the historical development of the art form.

Arranged chronologically, the informative catalog entries discuss each vase in detail, providing material of use to both the specialist and the general reader. In addition to the catalog entries and appendices, which have been compiled by an international team of fourteen prominent scholars, the catalog contains introductory essays by Dietrich von Bothmer, Martin Robertson, John Oakley, and A. D. Trendall. Copiously illustrated, the catalog presents each vase within its art historical and cultural context.

About the author

Shapiro is Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Carlos A. Picon is curator in charge; Sean Hemingway is associate curator; Christopher S. Lightfoot is associate curator; Joan R. Mertens is curator; and Elizabeth J. Milleker is curator, all in the Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Richard De Puma is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa.

Gerry D. Scott, III, is Curator of Ancient Art at SAMA.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art
• Editors: H. Harvey Alan Shapiro, Carlos A. Picón, Gerry D. Scott, III
• Contributor: San Antonio Museum of Art
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: San Antonio Museum of Art, 1995
• ISBN: 1883502047, 9781883502041
• Length: 285 pages
• Subjects: Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General