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  2. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting. Sparks, NV: Falcon Hill Press, 1995. Mitchell, Alexandre G. Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Noble, Joseph Veach. The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1965. Oakley, John Howard. The Greek Vase: Art of the Storyteller ...

  3. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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    Vases in use are sometimes depicted in paintings on vases, which can help scholars interpret written descriptions. Much of our written information about Greek pots come from such late writers as Athenaios and Pollux and other lexicographers who described vases unknown to them, and their accounts are often contradictory or confused. With those ...

  4. East Greek vase painting - Wikipedia

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    East Greek vase painting was a regional style of ancient Greek vase painting, produced by the eastern Greeks (Ionia and the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea). In spite of the region's wealth, the pottery was rather unremarkable in comparison to other areas. The clay is red-brown to pink and often contains mica inclusions. Many regional sub ...

  5. Black-figure pottery - Wikipedia

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    Greek artists created customized goods for the Etruscan market which differed in form and decor from their normal products. The Etruscans also developed their own black-figure ceramic industry oriented on Greek models. Black-figure painting on vases was the first art style to give rise to a significant number of identifiable artists.

  6. Category:Ancient Greek vase-painting styles - Wikipedia

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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 .

  7. Geometric art - Wikipedia

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    Geometric art is a phase of Greek art, characterized largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages and a little later, c. 900–700 BC. [1] Its center was in Athens , and from there the style spread among the trading cities of the Aegean . [ 2 ]

  8. François Vase - Wikipedia

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    A milestone in the development of ancient Greek pottery due to the drawing style used as well as the combination of related stories depicted in the numerous friezes, [1] it is dated to circa 570/560 BCE. The François Vase was discovered in 1844 in Chiusi where an Etruscan tomb in

  9. Brygos Painter - Wikipedia

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    Alcaeus and Sappho, Side A of an Attic red-figure calathus, ca. 470 BC.From Akragas, Staatliche Antikensammlungen In the 19th century CE, a magnificent red-figure kylix bearing the Brygos signature and painted in the style of the artist now known as the Brygos Painter was discovered in a 5th-century BCE tomb in Capua, leading John Beazley to dub the tomb (Tomb II) the “Brygos Tomb."