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Statue of Lord Byron in the Garden of Heroes at Missolonghi
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This is a memorial to Lord Byron set within a memorial garden dedicated to the heroes of Greek independence. The sculpture is highly naturalistic and set on top of a large monument with an inscription in Greek. Visitors are seen to the left
Excavation, likely at Lefkandi
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.The image shows 22 people working at an archeological site. The workers are mostly actively digging or appear to be examining the site carefully with tools. The site appears to be at the top of a hill, with the sea in the background of the hill. The excavation site is a square, divided into 6 smaller rectangles which are recessed into the ground and divided by elevated lines
Delphi- 6th Century BCE, gold, ivory treasure, Tachydromos '78
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.The image shows several artifacts of gold and ivory. One is a headpiece as presented on a model of a face as well as large, circular earrings, a bracelet, and necklace. They appear to be in a display case. The Greek text at the right reads: "The display case in the museum with the form of the goddess Artemis. She should be holding a scepter in her hand. To the left and right of her head are laid out her gold earrings, her gold hair, and her gold jewelry.
Aerial view West to Patras
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This is an aerial view of the Gulf of Patras. The image captures the bay and the surrounding mountainous landscape including a larger, snow-capped mountain
Acarnania - S of Astrakos
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This image shows a brown stone structure, with a two visible windows, one of which is an arch with three columns and the other of which is an arch with two symmetrical attached semi-arches. The rest of the structure is obscured by a small tree in the foreground
Knossos '60 Throne Room
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This image of the Throne Room at the ancient site of Knossos shows an interior space with stone walls, and floors, there are also beams holding up the roof and a large basin in the middle of the room. The space is open to the outside hilly terrain and also has benches along the walls and a throne
Reconstruction of Central Court at Knossos
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This image is a reconstruction of the central court at Knossos. Surrounding structures were built around the court, featuring buildings up to four stories high. People are featured fighting and holding vases
Naxos Kouros
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This image shows a unique angle of the Naxos Kouros, laying horizontally in a quarry on Naxos. The Kouros is fundamentally geometrical and was most likely not completed by the artisan that sculpted it, as evidenced by the extremely basic and simplistic indications of body parts
Iráklion Independence Day Festival
No full textThis image was digitized and added to Dlynx by the Visual Resources Center during summer, 2023. The metadata was created by students enrolled in Dr. Miriam Clinton's Greek Art classes. The student cataloger's name can be found in the dc.contributor.advisor field.This is a group of 4 men in blue costumes with red belts and black hats. They are walking in a procession, a celebration of Greek independence day. Many people not in costume are watching the men in the background
Poto-Poto School Painting
No full textReverend William Pruitt (1911-1999), who served as a Presbyterian missionary in the Belgian Congo from the 1930s to 1978, collected a group of 37 paintings from artists at the Poto-Poto School, a small art school in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo that is still in operation today. In 1998, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. began an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by several children of missionaries from the time Pruitt was a missionary in the Congo. This collection of paintings was found in the Rhodes College collection in the summer of 2023. The paintings were digitized and cataloged in the Visual Resources Center during fall 2023.
Learn more about the William Pruitt investigation here:
https://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/12/16/pcusa-named-lawsuit-alleged-victim-sexual-abuse-mi/
https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/iarp/pdfs/iarp_final_report.pdfGouache on orange paper. Depicts two groups of three figures separated by a tree. In each group a central figures stands in the middle of the others with a vessel on their heads. Signed in bottom near the middle