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Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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certain limited circle of myths. The treatmentof figures shows rigidity in the calm, and violence in the active,positions. The Doric forms of letters and words on many vases ofthis style, whether found in Greece or Italy, no less than theuniformity of their technique, indicate one place of manufacture,most likely the Doric Corinth, celebrated for her potteries ; on theother hand, the inscriptions in Ionian characters and written inthe Ionian dialect on vessels; prove their origin in the manu-factures of the Ionian Euboea and her colonies.* The pictures onthese vases, also painted in stripes, extend the mythologicalsubject-matter beyond the Trojan cycle to the oldest epical myths,each story being represented in its consecutive phases. The latter vases form the transition to the second period.The shapes now become more varied, graceful, and slender. Thefigures are painted in black, and covered with a brilliant varnish;the technique of the painting, however, does not differ from that of
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Fig. 195. the first period. The outlines have been neatly incised andcovered up with black paint; the details also of draperies andsingle parts of the body are done by incision, and sometimespainted over in white or dark red. The principle seems to be thatof polychrome painting, also applied in sculpture. Single parts ofthe armour, embroideries, and patterns of dresses, hair, and beardsof men, the manes of animals, &c, are indicated by means of darkred lines. This variety of colour was required particularly for thedraperies, which are stiff and clumsily attached to the body. Thesame stiffness is shown in the treatment of faces and other nude * See the excellent preface of Jahns description of vases in the Eoyal Pinako-thek at Munich (p. cxlviii. et seg.), where the different periods of pottery have beencharacterized. See also Jahns essay, Die griechischen hemalten Vasen, in his Populare Aufsatze ausder Alterthumswissenschaft. Bonn, 1868 (p. 307 et scg.). *44 THIRD CLASS OF VASE-PA

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