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

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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

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A New Attribution in Ancient Greek Pottery: The Middlebury Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos by the Marathon Painter

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By: Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture The first acquisition Middlebury’s Friends of the Art Museum pursued on its founding in 1969, was of an Ancient Greek vase decorated by a unknown artist (Figures 1 and 2).

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