| Ceramic has come from a long history of
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| | slight difference in the clay. But Rome
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| time. With human being has more knowledge
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| | was to develop its own ceramic art.
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| and advanced equipment, people start
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| | The first pure Italian pottery was
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| making the development in ceramic making.
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| | created from bright red clay still found
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| In this article you will learn the
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| | in the south of the peninsula. When
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| history of ceramic from the Greek time
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| | ornamented, the works were molded with
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| until Roman time.
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| | relief. Their almost dazzling luster was
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| First to make extensive use of molds were
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| | produced with a thin alkaline glaze which
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| the Greeks, who also developed the use of
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| | gave an extraordinary depth and richness
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| naturalistic painted decoration. In the
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| | to the clay colors. The earliest
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| Golden Age of Greece, the art of the
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| | decoration predominantly floral patterns,
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| ceramic painter was so far separated from
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| | masks, dances, feasts, battles and other
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| that of the potter that each was able to
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| | episodes of life was copied heavily from
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| put his signature on his portion of the
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| | the embossed silverware looted and
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| work. The best examples of early Greek
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| | brought back from Alexandria by Roman
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| pottery often bear the marks of two
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| | soldiers.
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| master craftsmen.
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| | Almost from the start, Roman potters cast
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| At about 1000 B.C., there was a
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| | their works in clay molds, which were
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| tremendous upheaval in Greek art. The
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| | prepared mechanically by means of
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| geometric style of linear decoration
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| | separate stamps. The final artistic
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| crowded ornamentation with repeated rows
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| | effect was therefore dependent upon the
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| of figures, triangles, lozenges, circles
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| | potter's imagination and skill.
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| and zigzags characterize Grecian ceramics
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| | At about 100 A.D., the Italian art was
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| of this period. Many of the designs were
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| | suddenly eclipsed by the delicate ceramic
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| entirely local. The most elaborate were
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| | pieces made in France. Rome still
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| those of Athens, called Diplynware after
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| | produced its own coarse pottery for
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| the cemetery at the city gate, where the
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| | ordinary domestic use, unglazed and
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| largest vases have been found. There are
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| | undecorated, which formed the bulk of
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| huge sepulchral jars which bear among the
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| | ancient ceramics of all periods. But the
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| geometric patterns, panels filled with
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| | wealthy class, for whom all fine pottery
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| pictures of funerals, corpses surrounded
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| | was manufactured, was won over by the
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| by mourners, and processions of chariots.
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| | superior craftsmanship and quality
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| The stylized human and animal figures
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| | offered by the Gallic potters. The colors
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| were drawn in stark, dramatic, black
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| | were more vivid and the clay-paste itself
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| silhouette.
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| | was harder and more durable. Examples of
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| The next significant developments took
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| | this pottery, called Sigillata, are still
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| place in Italy, after Greece fell to the
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| | excavated all over the Roman world, but
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| invading legions of Rome. In the
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| | most abundantly in central France.
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| centuries that followed, Greek influence
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| | During a period of time, ceramic has made
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| was extremely potent in all Roman art
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| | so much progress. As each nation has
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| because so many workmen were imported
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| | different culture, ceramic also has gone
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| either as colonists or slaves. Much
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| | through different shapes, depend on the
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| early Italian pottery can be
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| | culture or the place where the potter
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| distinguished from the Greek only by a
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| | lived.
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