History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)
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The present age is above all an age of Discovery. The thirst for knowledge manifests itself in all directions—theological, scientific, geographical, historical, and antiquarian. The handiwork of Nature and of Man alike are called upon to yield up their secrets to satisfy the universal demand which has arisen from the spread of education and the ever-increasing desire for culture which is one of the characteristics of the present day. And though, perhaps, the science of Archaeology does not command as many adherents as other branches of learning, there is still a very general desire to enquire ...
Chapters (511)
- HISTORY OF ANCIENT POTTERY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
- LIST OF PLATES IN VOLUME I
- LIST OF TEXT-ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME I
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT POTTERY
- NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS WORK
- PART I GREEK POTTERY IN GENERAL
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II SITES AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISCOVERY OF GREEK VASES
- I. GREECE
- II. ASIA MINOR
- III. AFRICA
- IV. ITALY
- CHAPTER III THE USES OF CLAY
- CHAPTER IV USES AND SHAPES OF GREEK VASES
- CHAPTER V TECHNICAL PROCESSES
- 1. Preparation of the Clay
- 2. Manufacture of Vases
- 3. The Baking of Vases
- 4. Painting
- 5. Status of Potters
- PART II HISTORY OF GREEK VASE-PAINTING
- CHAPTER VI PRIMITIVE FABRICS
- § 1. Cypriote Pottery
- § 2. Primitive Pottery in Greece
- § 3. Crete
- § 4. MYCENAEAN POTTERY
- CHAPTER VII RISE OF VASE-PAINTING IN GREECE
- § 1. The Geometrical Period
- § 2. Attica, Boeotia, and Melos
- § 3. Corinth
- § 4. Chalcidian Vases
- §5. “Tyrrhenian Amphorae”
- CHAPTER VIII VASE-PAINTING IN IONIA
- § 1. Rhodes and Asia Minor
- § 2. Africa
- § 3. Later Ionic Fabrics
- § 4. Early Painting in Ionia
- CHAPTER IX ATHENIAN BLACK-FIGURED VASES
- CHAPTER X RED-FIGURED VASES
- CHAPTER XI WHITE-GROUND AND LATER FABRICS
- § 1. White-Ground Vases
- § 2. The Decadence of Greek Vase-Painting
- § 3. Figure-Vases and Vases with Reliefs
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