FDSC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 7 NOTES PART 2 2015
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The end of archaism is conventionally marked by the persian commander xerxes" invasion of greece in 480 bce: the beginnings of archaic greece are traced to the origins of the 1st olympic games, held in. The loutrophoros, a type of amphora, was used principally for funeral rites. Outsize vases also were used as grave markers, while some amphorae were used as containers for the ashes of the dead: mostly animal images-mythological beasts, corinth dominated the 7th-century bc pottery industry. Corinthian vases are recognized by their repetitive friezes with animals of near eastern inspiration. Here, panthers, bulls, goats, deer, lions, and swans appear side-by-side with mythical beings. Figures could be articulated with glaze lines or dilute washes of glaze applied with a brush: the red-figure technique was invented around 530 b. c. , quite possibly by the potter. It gradually replaced the black-figure technique as innovators recognized the possibilities that came with drawing forms, rather than laboriously delineating them with incisions.
