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In art, pottery, applied art, craft, construction and architecture, "terracotta" is a term often used for red-coloured earthenware sculptures or functional articles such as flower pots, water and waste water pipes, tableware, roofing tiles and surface embellishment on buildings. In such applications, the material is also called terracotta.
Majapahit Terracotta is the terracotta art and craft dated from Majapahit era circa 13th to 15th century. Significant terracotta earthenware artifacts from this period were discovered in Trowulan, East Java. Over the years many terracotta sculptures and artifacts have been discovered as a result of agricultural activities, building roads etc.
The earliest note on this aspect was that of 20th century art historian German Hafner who, in 1986, was the first to speculate on a possible Hellenistic link to these sculptures due to the unusual display of naturalism relative to general Qin era sculpture: "the art of the terracotta army originated from Western contact, originated from ...
Luca della Robbia at the National Gallery of Art; Luca della Robbia at the Detroit Institute of Arts; Works by the della Robbia family at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; THAIS.it: Luca della Robbia; Illustrated biography (based on Giorgio Vasari's Lives) Sarnecka, Zuzanna. The Allure of Glazed Terracotta in Renaissance Italy. London: Harvey ...
Terracotta figurines are a wide range of small figurines made throughout the time span of Ancient Greece, and one of the main types of Ancient Greek pottery. Early figures are typically religious, modelled by hand, and often found in large numbers at religious sites, left as votive offerings .
Guido Mazzoni (c. 1445 – 1518, active 1473–1518) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, mainly in terracotta, and painter [1] of the Renaissance period, working in Bologna, Naples, and France. He is also sometimes referred to as Il Modanino. Adoration of the Shepherds, Cathedral, Modena, polychrome terracotta
The information learned from vase paintings forms the foundation of modern knowledge of ancient Greek art and culture. Most ancient Greek pottery is terracotta, a type of earthenware ceramic, dating from the 11th century BCE through the 1st century CE. The objects are usually excavated from archaeological sites in broken pieces, or shards, and ...
Terracotta flower pots with terracotta tiles in the background Due to its porosity, fired earthenware, with a water absorption of 5-8%, must be glazed to be watertight. [ 11 ] Earthenware has lower mechanical strength than bone china, porcelain or stoneware, and consequently articles are commonly made in thicker cross-section, although they are ...