Re-attribution of a Greek Vase at Middlebury: A White-Ground Red-Figure Lekythos by the Aischines Painter

By: Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture In 2010, the College Museum acquired a white-ground lekythos (Figure 1). Decorated in the so-called “white-ground red-figure” style of vase painting, the lekythos was meant to complement the white-ground black-figure

Piecing Together Cultural Context: Ancient Greek Painted Pottery Sherds

By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture The Middlebury College Museum holds a collection of some thirty Ancient Greek pottery sherds that as small primary sources greatly enhance the teaching and