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Arts And Ceramics In History - Term Papers

Arts And Ceramics In History

Art and ceramics were a very large part of the ancient Greek society. Pottery was used for trade, to immortalize figures of power, and for functional purposes such as food and drink storage. Pottery provides evidence for archeologist on the movements of the Greeks and of their trade routes around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins. Greek vases have been found in the cemeteries of Italian Etruscan origin. It is not known whether these vases were traded to be used as grave gifts or if they were primarily used in the homes of the purchasers for every day tasks. It is believed that these Greek works were traded for raw materials such as lump iron, bronze, and lead along with other ...

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BC. The key to Athens’s success was due in part to the variety of shapes and the countless range of pictorial and geometric designs on the exterior of the pieces.
The ancient Greek pottery has even inspired poetry. An author named John Keats wrote a poem called Ode on a Grecian Earn. The poem speaks of the beauty of Greek pottery.
“O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man,to whom thoou say’st,
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all
Ye Know on earth, and all ye need to Know.
(fifth paragraph from Ode on a Grecian Urn)

Other types of fine wares were manufactured in the fourth and the fifth centuries to the end of the Hellenistic period. Other types of pottery were produced ...

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Added: 7/19/2007 04:20:00 AM
Category: Arts
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