Harvard's Sackler Museum

The Sackler Museum is adjacent to Harvard's Fogg Museum. It is dedicated to Roman and Greek antiquities many of which qualify as paintings. Since these exhibits occupy a period both before the Roman empire and during its heyday but before the dark ages they establish a standard for drawing and painting in those days. These would not be achieved again until the Renaissance began 300 to 400 years later. Click on some of these images for a larger version.

Greek Ewer

 

Ewers were wine jugs … some mere large transporters of wine in ships' cargo and others for the tabel : beautifully decorated.	and an enlargement below of the nakedness of Greek male art	and below an enlargement of the God Bacchus	The lion is being wrestled either in training of competition.
			a chariot