Arms and Armor On Greek Vase-painting
Images and analysis related to warfare on Ancient Greek black-figure and red-figure vases.
Images and analysis related to warfare on Ancient Greek black-figure and red-figure vases.
The Arms and Armor digital exhibition uses visual recognition of images related to warfare on Ancient Greek black-figure and red-figure vases.
The goal of the project is to enable intelligent sorting of large quantities of images on vases into meaningful categories, according to objects depicted and compositions of the scenes. Such an application will facilitate research related to the vase-painting imagery, allowing a whole new series of questions to be posed and answered.
Greek vase painting is a highly uniform field, where representations are extremely consistent, and multiple visual formulae exist on the level of the individual objects represented or the composition of the scenes. These formulae are key components of the visual language of the vase-painting, which has its own grammar and syntax. In order to understand this language better, we need to identify its paradigms and syntagms. Currently, such research often needs to happen through laborious searches by hand; a machine learning model will greatly speed up that process.
On Greek Vase-painting
Images and analysis related to warfare on Ancient Greek black-figure and red-figure vases.
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