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She began working with ceramics in the late 1960s, learning the technique of floor-standing kilns in Ribolhos in the Viseu District from Maestro Albino, considered the last traditional potter in Portugal. [2] She then studied ceramics at IADE Faculty of Design, Technology and Communication, part of the European University of Lisbon, between ...
Pages in category "Portuguese pottery" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. V. Vista Alegre (company)
Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery style was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas , in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry.
Female figurines found in Mexico in Guanajuato, identified as pre-classic clay figures from the Chupicuaro culture, 400-100 BC, called "Pretty Ladies" by some archaeologists. Part of the collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels (AAM 68.14,21,22,24).
Pages in category "Ceramics manufacturers of Portugal" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
The name was first used in the mid-nineteenth century by the Marquis de Vibraye, who discovered an ivory figurine and named it La Vénus impudique or Venus Impudica ("immodest Venus"). [10] The Marquis then contrasted the ivory figurine to the Aphrodite Of Knidos, a Greco-Roman sculpture depicting Venus covering her naked body with both her ...
Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish:; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) [1] [2] is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework. Azulejos are found on the interior and exterior of churches , palaces , ordinary houses, schools, and nowadays, restaurants, bars and even railways or subway ...