Theseus captures the Cretan Bull | Marathonian Bull ( Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix painted by Aison ( vase painter ) | Aison, 5th century BC )

It seems that the story of the Golden Fleece had little resonance for Athenians of the Classic age, for only two representations on Attic painted wares of the fifth century have been identified, a krater at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a kylix in the Vatican collections.

Theseus fights Cercyon ( Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix painted by Aison ( vase painter ) | Aison, 5th cent.

Among the painted pottery discovered in Pistiros, prevailing are vessels of krater and scyphos types, rarer than those of the kylix and pelike types.

Discus-thrower, tondo of a kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by the Kleomelos Painter, Louvre Museum

Side A from a red-figure pottery | red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by Oltos, ca.

Priestess officiating before an altar while nude to demonstrate purity, Attic red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by Chairias, c. 510-500 BC, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by Makron ( vase painter ) | Makron, 490-480 BC.

In a kylix by the painter Aison ( c. 425 – c.

Tondo of an Attica | Attic Red-figure pottery | red-figure Kylix_ ( drinking_cup ) | kylix by the Triptolemos painter, ca.

A confident rider, surrounded by birds of good omen is approached by a Nike ( mythology ) | Nike bearing victor's wreaths on this Laconia n black-figured kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Interior ( tondo ( art ) | tondo ) of a red figure Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, depicting Herakles and Athena, by Phoinix ( potter ) and Douris ( vase painter ) | Douris ( painter ), circa 480-470 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen | Antikensammlungen Munich.

kylix ( drinking cup ) | Kylix, by C-painter, c. 570 – 565 BC, Louvre ( CA 6113 ), black-figure Attic.

The objects included a Greek red-figure kylix from the 5th-century BC, signed by the painter Onesimos and the potter Euphronios as potter, looted from the Etruscan site of Cerveteri ; a torso of the god Mithra from the 2nd-century AD, and the head of a youth by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos.

Procession of men, kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by the Triptolemos Painter, circa 480 BCE.

Dionysos on a boat, Black-figure pottery | black-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by Exekias, circa 530 BCE.

Woman kneeling before an altar, Attic red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by the Chairias Painter, c. 510-500 BCE.

Centauromachy, tondo of an Red-figure pottery | Attic red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

An alternate name for Pandora attested on a white-ground kylix ( ca.

The deeds of Theseus, on an Attica | Attic Red-figure pottery | red-figured Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Briseis and Phoenix, red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Briseis and Phoenix ( son of Amyntor ) | Phoenix, red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Boy playing terracotta yo-yo, Attica | Attic kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

The aulos was an instrument that might accompany the singing of elegies ( Brygos Painter, Attic red-figured kylix, ca.

Tondo of an Attica | Attic red-figure Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Aphrodite riding a swan: Attic white-ground red-figured kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic Black-figure pottery | black-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Cottabus player, red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Tondo of an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic Red-figure pottery | red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, ca.

Her other name, inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum, is Anesidora, " she who sends up gifts ," up implying " from below " within the earth.

The word comes from the Greek kylix " cup ," which is cognate with Latin calix, the source of the English word " chalice.

Detail from an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic Red-figure pottery | red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, 490 – 480 BC, from Vulci.

Furious Maenad, carrying a thyrsus and a panther, with a snake rolled up over her head. Tondo of an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic white-ground Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix 490-480 BC from Vulci. Staatliche Antikensammlungen Munich Germany.

Tondo ( art ) | Tondo from an Attica | Attic Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, 5th century BCE.

They were created from the collection of earthenware, which ultimately aided in the production of the ceramic glass of the kylix.

A kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix from Spina.

Cottabus player ; Red-figure Attic kylix ; Louvre

Depiction of fellatio on Attic red-figure kylix, c. 510 BC

File: Greek-Persian duel. jpg | Greek hoplite and Persian warrior depicted fighting, on an ancient kylix, 5th century BC

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix showing a hoplite offering a sacrifice before an altar, around 480 BC.

The evident contradiction between the rosy picture of Russia's progress painted by the Communist party's program and the enormous dangers for all humanity posed by Premier Khrushchev's Berlin policy has already led to speculation abroad that the program may be severely altered.

Dives, carefully repaired huts, and nicely painted and ornamented cottages were jumbled together cheek by jowl with little distinction.

Then, advised by the Architect of the Capitol, the Joint Committee for the Library, traditionally responsible for the works of art in the building, ordered the space cleared and painted in fresco, to show `` the Peace after the Civil War '', `` the Spanish-American War '', and `` the Birth of Aviation '', to match as nearly as feasible Brumidi's technique and composition.

Surrealists like Hans Arp and Max Ernst might talk of creation by hazard -- of composing pictures by walking on them with painted soles, or by tossing bits of paper up in the air.

Inside you will find the lovely Sibyls painted by Raphael and a chapel designed by Michelangelo.

We used to kid him by saying he only painted that way because he was so nearsighted.

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

The earliest painted Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle ( Albrecht Dürer ) | Self-Portrait ( 1493 ) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum ( Louvre, Paris )

Fruit still life with shells painted by Balthasar van der Ast. His sons and his pupil and brother-in-law, Balthasar van der Ast, were among those to uphold the Bosschaert dynasty which continued until the mid-17th century.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

Cuyp ” insignia, many paintings were left unsigned ( not to mention undated ) after being painted, and so a similar signature was added later on, presumably by collectors who inherited / discovered the works.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

Amnon and Tamar, painted by Jan Steen

Commissioned by Ammannati for funeral of his wife poetess Laura Battiferri ( painted as old woman with the book ).

Scholastica ( c 480 – 547 ), as painted by Andrea Mantegna ( 1431 – 1506 ), ca.

The Reformation theologian Calvin argued, Nahum painted God by which his nature must be seen, and " it is from that most memorable vision, when God appeared to Moses after the breaking of the tables.

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.