Giessen-Providence painter

This ancient ceramic wine jug is from Rhodes, a Greek island situated at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It was painted in the Wild Goat style, which evolved in Greece during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE as a result of increased contact with other cultures farther east. The decoration here presents natural motifs such as goats and flowers, as well as a mythological griffin and sphinx. The emphasis on a more naturalistic representation of the outside world and the combination of real and fictional subjects continues to be developed in the present day by artists such as Tomory Dodge and Angela Dufresne, whose works hang at opposite ends of this gallery.