They are the earliest surviving examples of Greek panel painting. The four panels, two of them highly fragmentary, were discovered during the 1930s in a cave near the village of Pitsa, in the vicinity of Sicyon. They can be stylistically dated to circa 540–530 BC, i.e., to the late Archaic period of Greek art.

2020年10月26日 · The Pitsa panels are a group of four panels that were found in a cave in Pitsa, Corinthia, Greece during the 1930s. They are the earliest Greek panel paintings known to date, and the only surviving panels still in existence from the Archaic Greek period.

Recent examination of four votive wooden panels from Pitsa in Corinthia, dated to the second half of the 6th century BC, allowed us to evaluate the use of colour and the painting techniques applied to those early pictorial documents. The tablets depict religious scenes connected with the cult of the nymphs.

The Pitsa panels, also known as the Pitsa tablets, are a captivating collection of painted wooden tablets unearthed near Pitsa, Corinthia. These panels hold the distinction of being the earliest surviving examples of Greek panel painting.

The Pitsa panels or Pitsa tablets are a group of painted wooden tablets found near Pitsa, Corinthia (Greece). They are the earliest surviving examples of Greek panel painting. Quick Facts Artist, Year ... The four panels, two of them highly fragmentary, were discovered during the 1930s in a cave near the village of Pitsa, in the vicinity of Sicyon.

In ancient Greek painting, there is no central perspect-ive. In a characteristic Archaic example, one of the wooden tablets found in the Pitsa Cave, one signed by a Corinthian painter (fig. 2)2, the colors are applied evenly, clearly marked off from each other, and all figures appear in …

Pitsa Panel, Corinthia, Greece Ancient Greek Painting and Sculpture. Date: c. 540 BC; Style: Archaic; Series: Pitsa Panels; Theme: Panel and wall painting; Genre: genre painting; Location: National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece

Four fragmentary wooden panels discovered in 1934 inside a cave dedicated to the Nymphs, located at Ano Pitsa in Corinthia (the Saftulis Cave), west of Sicyon 2 , are the oldest surviving panel paintings of the Greco-Roman world and offer a unique testimony of this art, hitherto considered as "lost" 3.

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Four fragmentary wooden panels discovered in 1934 inside a cave dedicated to the Nymphs, located at Ano Pitsa in Corinthia (the Saftulis Cave), west of Sicyon 2, are the oldest surviving panel paintings of the Greco-Roman world and offer a unique testimony of this art, hitherto considered as “lost” 3.