In Part 2 of 'The Essential Ship' we see how the Kerameikos kratēr in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, and a vase from Thebes in the British Museum, provide further evidence of how artists of the Geometric period depicted details of ships and their crews. Read more
During the Geometric period potters start to enrich the decorations of vases with forms of people, animals and—in the so-called Orientalizing style—with lions, panthers, rosettes, palmettes and lotus flowers. Lastly, in the Late Geometric Period, the artists start to communicate with the viewer by adding narrative content into the decorations. This content includes depictions of ships. Read more
