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Museums of Greece / Ancient Macedonian Painting:

Preview: Despite the fact that painting was one of the most advanced arts in Ancient Greece, only a few, but important, examples survive today. The great majority of it has been found on funerary buildings, on grave stelai, cist graves and burial couches in the region of hellenic Macedonia, with an overwhelming amount concentrated at the necropolis of Aigai, in contemporary Vergina, Imathia.They give us a small but well articulated image of the colour palette, the conventions and capabilities of ancient greek painting.

Pictured above:

Wall paintings- encaustic on marble- from the necropolis of Aigai and the tombs of Philip II of Macedon and Meda, Nikesipolis, and Alexander IV. Photography: Socrates Mavrommates, from the book Aigai: The royal metropolis of the Macedonians, by Angeliki Kottaridi.

Third row: Decorative motifs with ribbons and flowers from a cist grave found in Sedes. The grave today is housed in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. (photography mine)

Novice nuns play ball at the Santa Catalina Monestary

Location: Arequipa, Peru

Santhali girl pinning a silver filigree ornament, March 1954.