Funerary Vessel (detail), South Italian, from Apulia, about 350 B.C. Terracotta red-figured volute krater associated with the Iliupersis Painter. Courtesy of Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Curator's Gallery Tour
GETTY VILLA
Museum Galleries
David Saunders, associate curator of antiquities, leads a 45-minute tour of the exhibition Dangerous Perfection: Funerary Vases from Southern Italy, focusing on their ancient use in funerary ritual through their "dangerously perfect" 19th-century restoration to their recent conservation at the Getty Villa. Sign-up begins 15 minutes before the talk at the Tour Meeting Place.
