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Greek King Coining Money 600 BC by Albert Otto Tiemann
Photo CreditStanley Staniski Photography
Greek King Coining Money 600 BC
Photo CreditStanley Staniski Photography

Greek King Coining Money 600 BC

Artist
Year1936
Classification painting
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions62 × 97 in. (157.5 × 246.4 cm)
framed: 69 × 104 in. (175.3 × 264.2 cm)
Credits WPA, Federal Art Project, 1935 - 1943
Location
  • Interior scene, with 5 people at left, 1 person center, 4 people at right.  Roman soldier at left picture plane stands behind urn lower left foreground.  He wears helmet, toga, and robe and holds spear.  Behind him at left background stands Greek person carrying tray with urn on it, wearing headband and toga.  Woman seated next to man carrying tray wears Greek robe-like garment, bands of cloth in hair; Roman soldier wearing helmet, toga, and armored breastplate between her and seated Roman soldier wearing helmet, toga, armored breastplate, sandals.  He accepts gift from tray being carried by man in center, who is wearing Greek toga type garment belted at waist and sandals, with headband in hair.  Spear carrier behind man with tray, wearing helmet, toga, armored breastplate, facing viewer.  At right background man wearing apron and sandals, with hammer, works coining machine; next to him is naked to waist, and smiles out at viewer; man at right picture plane wears toga, apron, sandals, and pours metal from vase-like object. Frieze at right background with Egyptian-type column left background. Composed in reds, yellows, blues, greens, pinks, oranges in wooden frame with "Greek King Coining Money, 600 B. C." painted in "gold" centered.