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Although many styles in different media may be called "ornate", ornate style as a distinct style term is used in two contexts: The Red-figure vase painting of ancient Greece, where it, and a contrasting "plain style", developed in Apulia around 400 BC. The third of the Pompeian Styles of ancient Roman wall-paintings, popular around 20–10 BC.
The Darius Vase in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. The Darius Painter was an Apulian vase painter and the most eminent representative at the end of the "Ornate Style" in South Italian red-figure vase painting in Magna Graecia. His works were produced between 340 and 320 BC.
Ancient Roman urn made of alabaster. An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal.Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or origin.
The ornate and precious rhyta of the great civilizations of earlier times are grandiose rather than ribald, which gives the democratic vase paintings an extra satirical dimension. The connection of satyrs with wine and rhyta is made in Nonnus 's epic Dionysiaca.
Most Greek vases were wheel-made, though as with the Rhyton mould-made pieces (so-called "plastic" pieces) are also found and decorative elements either hand-formed or by mould were added to thrown pots. More complex pieces were made in parts then assembled when it was leather hard by means of joining with a slip, where the potter returned to ...
Islamic tin-glazed earthenware, with blue and white decoration, Iraq, 9th century.The Arabic calligraphy is ghibta, i.e. "happiness". [3]Blue glazes were first developed by ancient Mesopotamians to imitate lapis lazuli, which was a highly prized stone.
Ancient Greek funerary vases are decorative grave markers made in ancient Greece that were designed to resemble liquid-holding vessels. These decorated vases were placed on grave sites as a mark of elite status. There are many types of funerary vases, such as amphorae, kraters, oinochoe, and kylix cups, among others.
The Medici Vase on Display in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence Etching by Stefano della Bella (1656); the young Grand Duke Cosimo III drawing the vase at the Villa Medici, Rome. The Medici Vase is a monumental marble bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens in the second half of the 1st century AD as a garden ornament for the Roman market.