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    Red-figure pottery is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left...
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    Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic (Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha), is...
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    Classical Greece included at first black-figure pottery, yet other styles emerged such as red-figure pottery and the white ground technique. Styles such...
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    from ancient Apulia in southeast Italy. It comprises geometric pottery and red-figure pottery. The legitimate Iron Age sequel to the Neolithic and Bronze...
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    Greek pottery fabricated in Magna Graecia largely during the 4th century BC. The fact that Greek Southern Italy produced its own red-figure pottery as early...
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    red-figure pottery; height: 2.6 cm, diameter: 11.8 cm; Louvre Hydria of Eros between Poseidon, Amymone, and a Satyr; 375-350 B.C.; red-figure pottery;...
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    surviving Greek literature was composed, monumental sculpture and red-figure pottery began in Greece and the hoplite became the core of Greek armies. In...
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  • until its successor, red figure pottery, was invented around 530 BC. The switch from black figure pottery to red figure pottery was made due to the enhanced...
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  • Pisistratus by the reforms of Cleisthenes, red-figure pottery was the latest trend in ceramic arts. In black figure pottery from earlier times gods were spectators...
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    BC), Head-Kantharos of a Female Faun or Io (?), red-figure pottery Janiform kantharos, Etruscan pottery, second half of the 4th century BC Kantharos Janus...
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    Black-figure pottery Geometric art Greek terracotta figurines Minoan pottery National Archaeological Museum of Athens Pottery of ancient Greece Red-figure pottery...
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  • Black-figure or Red-figure techniques; Black-figure and Red-figure pottery techniques were both used interchangeably up until the fifth century BC when Red-figure...
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    also introduced in Ancient Rome. The pileus also appears on Apulian red-figure pottery. The pilos together with the petasos were the most common types of...
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    archaeological term describing vases from the final phase of Attic red-figure pottery production. Their exact chronology remains problematic, but they are...
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    they began making black-figure pottery and later red figure pottery, using a highly original technique. In black-figure pottery, the artist would paint...
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    from antiquity, included imported luxury ceramics, red-figure pottery, sgraffito pottery, pottery lamps, loom weights, spindle parts, coins, amphora seals...
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    Slipware (category Types of pottery decoration)
    as in the black-figure or red-figure pottery styles of Ancient Greek pottery. Slip decoration is an ancient technique in Chinese pottery also, used to cover...
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    Aphrodite (600 BCE) is considered an earliest example of lesbian poetry. Red-figure pottery invented in Greece (530 BCE) often portrayed images that displayed...
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    traditions and often employ a similar black-background technique found in red-figure pottery of the Classical period. Some of the styles and techniques found at...
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    Briseis smelling a flower, red-figure pottery, ca. 520-510 BC, British Museum....
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    melted the lead, which blocked its air passage, suffocating it. Some red-figure pottery painters show Bellerophon wielding Poseidon's trident instead. When...
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    Republic A typical Attic red-figure cup with meander pattern at borders, by the Eretria Painter, c. 440–435 BC, red-figure pottery, Louvre Ancient Greek...
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    in the Athens Ancient Agora, and potty chair images can be seen in red figure pottery iconography. Howard, Jacqueline (8 November 2017). "How the world...
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    dating around 470–460 BC. The muscle cuirass is also depicted on Attic red-figure pottery, which dates from around 530 BC and into the late 3rd century BC....
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    widely in ancient times than by modern archeologists. They are normally in pottery, but there are also carved stone examples. Lekythoi were especially associated...
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    effecting the change from black-figure to red-figure pottery), Euphronios was one of the most important artists of the red-figure technique. His works place...
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    "Laconian Red-Figure Pottery: Local Production and Use". In Schierup, Stine; Sabetai, Victoria (eds.). The Regional Production of Red-Figure Pottery: Greece...
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    more from grand contemporary paintings than on the heritage of the red-figure pottery. Bricks and tiles were used for architectural and other purposes....
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    Slip (ceramics) (category Pottery)
    as in the black-figure or red-figure pottery styles of Ancient Greek pottery. Slip decoration is an ancient technique in Chinese pottery also, used to cover...
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    black- and red-figure pottery in the time window 550–510 BC. He signed as the potter on over 120 black-figure vases, but only nine red-figure. Most of his...
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