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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.
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 (340-320 BCE). The Darius Vase is a famous vase painted by an anonymous Magna Graecia Apulian vase painter, commonly called the Darius Painter, the most eminent representative at the end of the "Ornate Style" in South Italian red-figure vase painting.
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.
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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 ...
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