Attic Red Figure T-Shirts

This beautiful attic vase scene of Penelope at her loom was derived from an antique book plate in "The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment" (1902)

This design is based on an Athenian Kantharos (a type of drinking cup) that's in the Met's collection. This is a particularly fine example, decorated with palms and olives. The olives also call to mind Athens' patron goddess, Athena, and the foundation myth of the city.

This attic red-figure owl design was inspired by a kalpis at the Getty Institute. It dates to 480–470 B.C. and features an owl and olive branches, symbols of Athens' patron goddess Athena. The attribution lies somewhere in the Group of the Floral Nolans .

Digital painting and restoration based on a Greek attic by Bulgan Lumini. Attic red-figure kylix painting from c. 480–470 BC showing Athena observing as the Colchian dragon disgorges the hero Jason

Red figure Greek vase offering scene

This bacchanalia scene was developed from a print in L'ornement Polychrome (1888) by Albert Racinet.

Digital image elaboration by Bulgan Lumini. Archer drawing an arrow from his quiver as he turns to shoot at the enemy .Attic red-figured plate. From Vulci. late archaic, ca. 520-510 BC

Greek vase scene derived from the antique bookplates in L'ornement Polychrome (1888) by Albert Racinet.

Design derived from an antique print in "Abhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Nrnberg" (1852)

"The Birth of Erichthonius. Gaea, goddess of Earth ... presents the young Erichthonius to Minerva. Behind Minerva is Triton and beside Gaea is Vulcan. Two Victories hover over the scene. Casucini Collection at Chiusi." Lithograph from Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l''histoire des religions et des moeurs de l''antiquité. (Paris : Leleux, 1844-1861) Lenormant, Charles (1802-1859), Author.

This is a 6th c. BCE Attic kylix by the Pistoxenos Painter. You can find it in the Carlotta Museum in Stockholm. It's also been made into a popular meme!

Athena and Poseidon arguing, from a lithograph by Kaeppelin, 1884-1861.

This design is derived from a 5th c BCE attic red figure kylix attributed to the painter Douris. It depicts Athena with her owl as Jason is vomited up by the dragon which guards the golden fleece. A Masterpiece of ancient Greek Vase painting, this work is currently in the Vatican Museums. If you're looking for a figure of it, there's a decent line drawing of this vase in the antique book "The Open court" (1887)

Derived from print in "Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton," (1804)

Drawing after an Attic red-figure kylix by Douris, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894

Because some days one would go fishing. A drawing inspired by a Greek red-figure vase painted between 510 and 500 BC by the Ambrosios painter.

Derived from an antique illustration in Charles Mills Gayley, The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, 1893

Adapted from "Greek Vase Paintings." (London Unwin 1894) Harrison, Jane Ellen.