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2. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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   Unlike the better-known black-figure and red-figure techniques, its coloration was not achieved through the application and firing of slips but through the use of paints and gilding on a surface of white clay. It allowed for a higher level of polychromy than the other techniques, although the vases end up less visually striking.

3. Jasperware - Wikipedia

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   The vase was lent to Wedgwood by William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland from 1786. Wedgwood devoted four years of painstaking attempts at duplicating the vase in black and white jasperware, which was finally completed in 1790, the figures perhaps modelled by William Hackwood.

4. Eleusis Amphora - Wikipedia

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   It is decorated with black and white painted figures on a light colored background, which is characteristic of the "Black and White" style commonly seen in Middle Protoattic pottery. [1] The amphora's decoration reflects the pottery of the Orientalizing period (c. 710–600 BCE), [2] a style in which human and animal figures depict mythological ...

5. Black-figure pottery - Wikipedia

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   Heracles and Geryon on an Attic black-figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss, c. 540 BCE, now in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities.. Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases.

6. White-ground technique - Wikipedia

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   White-ground vases were produced, for example, in Ionia, Laconia and on the Cycladic islands, but only in Athens did it develop into a veritable separate style beside black-figure and red-figure vase painting. For that reason, the term "white-ground pottery" or "white-ground vase painting" is usually used in reference to the Attic material only.

7. Codex Style - Wikipedia

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   The Codex Style, as the name already clarifies, has a strong resemblance to the surviving Postclassic Maya codices. Comparing the scenes painted in the corpus of codex style vases, artistic devices such as the contrast of a black line on a white (or cream) background with the addition of a hieroglyphic caption illustrating the iconography recalled the uses of color and space in the Dresden ...

8. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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   The writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, especially his books Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1750) and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art", 1764) were the first to distinguish sharply between ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, and define periods within Greek art, tracing a ...

9. Black-on-black ware - Wikipedia

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   Black-on-black ware pot by María Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, circa 1945.Collection deYoung Museum María and Julián Martinez pit firing black-on-black ware pottery at P'ohwhóge Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), New Mexico (c.1920) Incised black-on-black Awanyu pot by Florence Browning of Santa Clara Pueblo, collection Bandelier National Monument Wedding Vase, c. 1970, Margaret Tafoya of ...