When looking on the great mass of attic grave reliefs of the 5. and 4. centuries B.C. the number of painted steles seems low. This image has been corrected by using photopgraphic methods like UV or Streiflicht. Besides simple steles reliefs and grave vessels have been examined on traces of painting. Figurative images and ornaments have been reconstructed in many drawings and convey an impression of the rich color of a classic necropolis.
The new monuments, received by the method, bring new light on the renaissance of attic grave art in the 5th century. Posamentir compares them with contemporary reliefs as well as with classic painting.

2006.
240 p., ca. 400 fig.,3 fold out pl. Ln.
ISBN 3-930609-28-2
EUR 178,—