The possibility and necessity of reconstructing ancient Greek buildings to study the depicted architecture in Greek vase painting of the Archaic era.

Abstract

This paper examines the problem of depicting and interpreting architectural structures on the two-dimensional surface of vases in the archaic era. And accordingly, during the period of formation of the necessary iconographies and methods of interaction between the depicted space and plane. The purpose of this study is to study the architecture depicted in vase paintings during the Archaic period. As part of such research, there is a need to analyze the remaining relief or structural parts of ancient architecture, scan them and create at least approximate virtual models. What becomes possible with the development of the latest information technologies. This will help a deeper study of the origins of the architectural fantasies of ancient Greek vase painters. In the meantime, within the framework of the initial stages of such a study, examples have been selected for comparisons of individual elements of architectural buildings and types in general. Some origins and share of the vase painter’s fantasies are determined. This study proves that the depicted architecture can play many functions, solve a large number of problems in vase painting scenes; often, masters use it as a kind of language to convey important non-verbal, semantic points.