Vergina

Ive realised I havent made much progress on the blog part of this assignment ,so I have been researching for about 3 hours and 24 mins, and I have found out quite a bit about The Rape of Persephone wall painting in a Verginian tomb (left) where Greek art has gone through quite a rough patch and a dramatic change over the years, and I have found this timeline to represent it:

Greek Painting

*Greek Dark Age----ca. 1200-800 BC

-protogeometric

*Archaic----ca. 800-500 BC

-geometric

-orientalising

-black-figure

-flat outlined frescos (eg.Tomb of the Diver,Pitsa Panels)

*Classical and Hellenistic----ca. 500-27 BC

-red-figure>decline
-realistic frescos (eg.Abduction of Persephone)

Etruscan
tomb frescos in the Greek style

I have also finally researched heaps and eventually found out that this fresco was in the Vergina Tomb of Persephone,Tomb no.1!.(Sir,i finally got it):)

Gosh,it even has its own tomb!

This is what it looks like in its own tomb,situated on the left hand side of the image.....

The main people in this wall painting are Hades/Pluto and of course,sweet and innocent Persephone.

These are just a few of the websites I have loked at since I have been researching:

http://essentialhumanities.net/paint2_2.html

http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/forum/macedonian-archaeology-artifacts/794-vergina-aegae-royal-tombs-elizabeth-carney.html

http://www.macedonia-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/C1.1.6.3.html

and I have written about 2 A4 pages of research notes.