Terracotta
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'TERRACOTTA.' Greek. - The use of clay amongst the Greeks was very varied and extensive, but we are here only concerned with one aspect of it, that in which the clay was baked without any glaze, ...
TERRACOTTA STATUETTES
Among the most original products of the Indus civilization are the lively and exuberant terracotta statuettes.
terracotta
From the Italian word for cooked earth, a naturally reddish-brown earthenware that is used for pottery, sculpture, and as a building material. It is often glazed in various colours.
Terracotta, glazed. Pottery or china decorated with a vitreous finish obtained by combining silica (found in clay) and lead oxide. The pottery thus becomes impermeable and lustrous.
Terracotta sunburst design above the front doors of the Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles; Claud Beelman, 1930 ...
Clodion prepared a terracotta model for Poetry and Music, which is in the National Gallery and frequently on view in the ground-floor sculpture galleries. It provides a rare chance to compare an artist's model with the final version in stone.
It was first used to paint parts of the Terracotta Army Warriors (the huge army of clay figurines found near the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang). Both pigments were used to colour ceramic ware, metalwork, and mural paintings.
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sarcophagi A coffin or tomb, made of stone, wood or terracotta, and sometimes (especially among the Greeks and Romans) carved with inscriptions and reliefs. silverpoint metal pencil made of copper, brass, or bronze with a silver tip fused to it.
China saw many art forms flourish, jade carving, bronzework, pottery (including the stunning terracotta army of Emperor Qin), poetry, calligraphy, music, painting, drama, fiction, etc.
Terracotta - Terracotta is an italian word, meaning baked earth ...more info
Tertiary Colour - In painting a tertiary colour is created by mixing a primary colour with a secondary colour ...more info ...
The first, fairly simple buff-coloured terracotta vases date from tile Peiligang culture of China (seventh to sixth millennium ??).
Terracotta: Italian word for cooked earth. An earthenware, naturally reddish-brown but often glazed in various colors and fired. Used for pottery, sculpture, or as a building material or decoration.
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Alessandro Algardi (1598-1654) : The Baptism of Christ - Roma, 1644-45 (terracotta, height 48.7 cm, width 47.8 cm)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) : Habakkuk and the angel - Roma, 1655 (terracotta, height 52 cm) ...
The terracotta of flowerpots and the rusty red of masts and furled sails become a blazing Indian red: the reflections of the boats, turning at anchor through the razzle of light on the water, are pink; the green of the left wall, ...
Wolsey, introduced about 1512-1520 the art of the Renaissance (tombs of Dr Young [1512], of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York [1512-1519] in Westminster abbey, works by Pietro Torrigiano, in the Florentine manner; medallions of polychrome terracotta by ...
Madame X by John Singer Sargent Round XX by Whitfield Lovell The Terracotta Army from Xi'an
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The naturalism and rational logic of Western art is seldom apparent in African art, with the notable exception of 12th and 13th-century Yoruba Ife terracotta heads. Most sculpture is stylized and symbolic because it expresses the sacred.
Tombs were decorated with wall paintings and reliefs, and contained portrait statues of the dead, together with household utensils, including fine work in metal, ivory, terracotta, etc for use in the next world.
 See also: Painting, Sculpture, Classic, Bronze, Roman
  
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