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Pages in category "Ancient Greek vase-painting styles" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Paestan vase painting style was originated by Sicilian immigrants around 360 BC, and was the last of the South Italian styles to develop. The first workshop was controlled by Asteas and Python , who are the only South Italian vase painters known from inscriptions.
The following is a list of ancient Greek vase painters who have been identified either by name or by style. Because of the research of academics like John Davidson Beazley , Arthur Dale Trendall , Robert Manuel Cook , Darrell A. Amyx and Conrad Stibbe more than 2800 individual painters are known.
The choice of paint color on the walls in Victorian homes was said to be based on the use of the room. Hallways that were in the entry hall and the stair halls were painted a somber gray so as not to compete with the surrounding rooms. Most people marbleized the walls or the woodwork.
China painting, or porcelain painting, [a] is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects, such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain , developed in China in the 7th or 8th century, or soft-paste porcelain (often bone china ), developed in 18th-century Europe.
In archaeological scholarship, the term Mannerists describes a large group of Attic red-figure vase painters, stylistically linked by their affected painting style. The group comprised more than 15 artists. They preferred to paint column kraters, hydriai and pelikes. They were active from about 480 BC until near the end of the 5th century BC.
Only Syracusae retained a limited vase production then. [1] The typical Sicilian vase painting only came into existence around 340 BC. Three groups of workshops can be distinguished. The first, known as the Lentini-Manfria Group was active in Syracuase and Gela, a second group (Centuripe Ware) was based near Mount Aetna, a third on Lipari. The ...
Thessalian vase painting was a regional style of Greek vase painting, prevalent in Thessaly. The Geometric vase painting of Thessaly was rather lifeless and provincial, especially compared to the dominant production centres such as Attica .