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black-figure
[ blak-fig-yer ]
adjective
- pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
Word History and Origins
Origin of black-figure1
Example Sentences
The Greek objects include a black-figure kylix, a bowl from the sixth century B.C. featuring vignettes of Herakles grappling with the Nemean lion; a red-figure pyxis, a cylindrical container with a lid from the fifth century B.C.; and a ceramic amphora — a tall jar with two handles — from the sixth century B.C.
One is a black-figure amphora, or vessel, made in Attica in Greece by the potter and painter Exekias in around 530BC.
The Swiss gallery Cahn has an extraordinary collection of ancient Greek vases, black-figure and red-figure, and Colnaghi has an exquisite still life by the 18th-century Spanish master Luis Egidio Meléndez.
An Etruscan black-figure vase with dolphins, dating to 510-500 B.C., was seized from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.
From about 700 B.C. to 530 B.C., black-figure painting was the predominant technique on Greek vases.
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