The 292 Artworks of media Terracotta and containing the word danish unknown goldsmith, terracotta

Before about 2700 B.C., the most prevalent Cycladic marble vessel was the kandila, a globular storage jar with a collared neck and a tall, cylindrical foot. The vessel type takes its name from its resemblance to modern Greek church lamps. This example, a double kandila, is extremely rare. The broken...

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This calyx-krater shaped vase in terracotta painted by the /

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One of the oldest objects in the Getty Museum/

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The Greek hero Herakles battles Kyknos on this black-figure neck-amphora. In Greek mythology, the god Apollo urged Herakles to stop Kyknos, who had been waylaying pilgrims on their way to Apollo/

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One of the oldest objects in the Getty Museum/

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During the 700s and 600s B.C., images of animals and monsters often decorated luxury items imported to Greece from the Near East. The Greeks soon began reproducing these images in their own art. Among these monsters was a half-human, half-bird creature that became linked with the Greek mythological ...

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This rhyton is in the shape of the head of a Lakonian hound. It is black except for the reserved areas for the dog/

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Terrakotten für den häuslich-religiösen Gebrauch bilden aufgrund ihrer fast industriellen Massenproduktion aus Modeln eine der umfangreichsten Objektgattungen des griechisch-römischen Ägypten und waren in allen Bevölkerungsschichten verbreitet. Sie geben Gottheiten, Menschen und Tiere wieder. Hunde ...

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This group is considered a major achievement of sculptural work in terracotta from the Middle Rhine around 1400. At the centre of the procession to Golgotha was the figure of Christ carrying his cross (seen here as a plaster replica); the original, as well as the figures of the two thieves and that ...

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This rather large krater depicts a scene of the marriage between Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Eleven figures encircle the vessel, with attendants flanking the main couple in the center of the front of the vase. Dionysos, who wears an ivy wreath an...

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This Attic geometric pyxis (circular box) from Greece is made of terracotta with black slip geometric designs. The lid has a double horse handle, which is typical of the more elaborate examples of this type of vessel. The lid and the pyxis have typical geometric patterns: swastikas, chevrons, meande...

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On this intricately detailed Corinthian black-figure aryballos (oil-flask), Herakles battles the Lernean Hydra, a many-headed, serpent-like monster. Required to destroy the fierce creature as the second of the Twelve Labors assigned to him by King Eurystheus, the hero grasps one of the snaky heads w...

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