Bavarian State Collection of Antiques

The Staatliche Antikensammlung (State Collection of Antiques) in Munich is a museum for the Bavarian state's antique collections for Greek, Etruscan and Roman art. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 492 KB) date: 2005-06-29 Fotograf: Oliver Kurmis Datum: 29. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 492 KB) date: 2005-06-29 Fotograf: Oliver Kurmis Datum: 29. ... Coordinates: Time zone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country: Germany State: Bavaria Administrative region: Upper Bavaria District: Urban district City subdivisions: 25 borroughs Lord Mayor: Christian Ude (SPD) Governing parties: SPD / Greens / Rosa Liste Basic Statistics Area: 310. ... The geographic region and Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... Map showing the extent of the Etruscan civilization and the twelve Etruscan League cities. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The neo-classical building at Königsplatz with Corinthian columns was established in 1848 as counterpart to the opposite Glyptothek and commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I. The architect was Georg Friedrich Ziebland. The museum building was severely damaged by bombing in World War II but was reconstructed and reopened to the public in the late 1960s. Classicism door in Olomouc, The Czech Republic Teatr Wielki in Warsaw Church La Madeleine in Paris Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicist seeks to emulate. ... Propyläen at Königsplatz (errected as memorial for the accession of Otto of Greece) The Königsplatz (Kings square) is a square in the inner city of Munich and together with the Karolinenplatz a part of the Brienner Strasse, one of four royal avenues. ... The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Ludwig I (or Louis I, which is the French form of his name, his godfather was Louis XVI of France) (August 25, 1786, Strasbourg – February 29, 1868, Nice) was king of Bavaria from 1825 until the 1848 revolutions in the German states. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Dionysos Kylix by Exekias (circa 530 BC)

The State Collection of Antiques based on the Wittelsbach antique collections, especially the collection of antique vases of King Ludwig I. Later the museum got extended by purchase and donations. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1542x1725, 267 KB) Dionysos sailing. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1542x1725, 267 KB) Dionysos sailing. ... Exekias or Execias was one of the most famous ancient Greek potters, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC. He was renowned for his works of black-figure pottery, acting as both potter and painter. ... The Wittelsbach family is an European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria. ...

The internationally renowned collection of antique pottery is outstanding. The museum exhibits artworks of famous Greek potters and painters like the Amasis Painter, Exekias, Archikles, Glaukytes, the Penthesilea Painter, the Andokides Painter, Oltos, Kleophon, Phintias, Euphronios, Euthymides, Epiktetos, the Pan Painter, the Berlin Painter, Hieron, Makron, Duris, the Brygos Painter, the Acheloos Painter and Lydos. Thanks to its hardy nature pottery bulks large in the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and because we have so much of it (some 100,000 vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum) it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of that society. ... Satyrs by the Amasis Painter The Amasis painter (active around 550 - 510 in Athens) was a Greek Vase painter of the black figure style. ... Exekias or Execias was one of the most famous ancient Greek potters, who worked between approximately 550 BC - 525 BC. He was renowned for his works of black-figure pottery, acting as both potter and painter. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Oltos was a painter of Greek red-figure pottery in the time window 525-500. ... The Kleophon Painter is the name given to an anonymous Athenian vase painter in the red figure style who flourished in the mid-to-late 5th century BCE. He is thus named because one of the works attributed to him bears an inscription in praise of a youth named Kleophon. ... Phintias was a Greek vase painter; along with Euphronios and Euthymides, he was one of the most important representatives of the Pioneer Group of Athenian red-figure vase painters. ... Death of Sarpedon, painted by Euphronios Euphronios was a Greek painter and potter of red-figure vases, active in Athens between 520 and 470 BC, the time of the Persian Wars. ... Euthymides was an Athenian potter and painter of vases, primarily active between 515 and 500 BC. He was a member of the Greek art movement later to be known as The Pioneers for their exploration of the new decorative style known as red-figure pottery. ... Scythian bowman, tondo from a red-figure plate by Epiktetos, ca. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Berlin Painter (working c. ... Libation scene. ... Dionysos and satyrs, tondo from a kylix by the Brygos Painter, ca. ... The Acheloos painter (active around 525 - 500 BCE. in Athens) was a Greek vase painter of the black-figure style. ... Lydos was an Athenian vase painter who flourished in the mid 6th century BC. More than 130 vases of various shapes and sizes are attributed to him, though only two are signed. ...

The collection specialises also in smaller antique objects, glassware, bronzes, terra-cottas, jewelry, gold and silver. A famous Roman goblet from Cologne made of reticella (or network) glass (4th century AD) still shows its Latin inscription BIBE MULTIS ANNIS (drink for another many years!). Coordinates: Time zone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country: Germany State: North Rhine-Westphalia Administrative region: Cologne District: Urban district Mayor: Fritz Schramma (CDU) Basic Statistics Area: 405. ...

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