Explore ancient Greek pottery. Study the production of Greek vessels, discover the types of Greek pottery designs, and review black-figure and...
Ancient Greek pottery: bowls, jars, and plinths made from red clay and decorated with black designs Pottery can be used for everyday needs like dishes, storage containers, and cooking pots. It is also commonly used to create decorative elements like vases and small statues. Pottery is used ...
• Europe • Ancient Persia • Middle East • Ancient India • Americas • Africa • Ancient Greece • Developments in Chinese PotteryLate Minoan Palace Style Vase Neopalatial Period (1700-1425 BCE) Note the all-over decoration. Greek Hydria with birds (700 BCE) Water-carrying vess...
A mosaic is a pattern or image that’s created by arranging tiny pieces of colored stone, glass, or ceramic. Mosaics first appeared in ancient Roman times when they were used to decorate the walls and floors in ancient Roman and Byzantine buildings. These days, mosaic is still used to cr...
The ancient Greeks painted wall frescoes of fruit in baskets, vases of flowers, fish, and hunted fowl. The colorful Greek fresco paintings decorated the walls of ancient Greek homes in the same way that framed pictures decorate the walls of contemporary homes. Art historians recognize the ancient...
1. Relief: Among the many types of stone sculpture, relief is a prominent and versatile form that breathes life into a flat surface, giving it a sense of depth and dimension. Whether decorating the facades of ancient temples or etched into the walls of ornate palaces, reliefs showcase the ...
Passages in the Hebrew Bible talk about slaves smearing the blood from a lamb on their front doors to ward off the angel of death from taking their first-born children. In ancient Catholic times, red doors represented the blood of Christ and signified the sanctity of being on holy ground. ...
of this type are pictured on ancient Greek vases. In later high-warp looms the vertical frame has heavy uprights holding a horizontal roller at top and bottom, on which the warps are stretched. Each warp passes through a loop of cord (thelisses), and the loops encircling the warps that...
Eskişehir, city, west-central Turkey. It lies along the Porsuk River, a tributary of the Sakarya River, at a point about 125 miles (200 km) west of Ankara. Located near the site of the ancient Phrygian city of Dorylaeum, the present city probably bega
Another reason that art fraud is difficult to control is that the art market is enormous, unwieldy, and greatly varied, embracing items from Victorian buttons to 6th-century Greek vases and from medieval pilgrim badges tocontemporaryphotographs. Business is often conducted under the veil of secrecy...