In a connecting corridor in the exhibition, entitled "Graphic Mythologies," his "Nessus and Dejanira" 1920, for example, is aligned with painted red-figured and white-ground Greek funerary jars and an incised, bronze Etruscan mirror to show how the subtle economy of means that marked Picasso's invigorated and elegant new linear style owed as much to the classical past as did his painted evocations of ancient sculptures. ❋ Mary Tompkins Lewis (2011)
Sotheby's An Attic red-figured hydria, attributed to the Marsyas Painter ❋ Unknown (2011)
It was a relief to be taken into a sitting room where there was a little more light, the fawn, red-figured velvet curtains held back by loops of brown braid, and the blinds behind them raised perhaps six inches. ❋ Ruth Rendell (2010)
I looked around my beautiful dwelling, saw the gold and silver, the bronze statues, the red-figured vases and the painted walls. ❋ Liviu (2009)
From 500 to 415, Attic painters of red-figured vases developed line drawing in a series of exquisite styles. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Early Greek painting is known mainly from decorated pottery: red-figured vases replaced black-figured c. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The quantity of the extant pottery (especially red-figured pots and white-ground lekythoi, with battle and funerary scenes) and the great number of burnt bones from skeletons of well-built men, confirm the identification of these funerary structures as polyandreia. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The offerings we found consisted of common, even cheap, burial vessels; black-finished ones, some small red-figured, as well as white lekythoi (oil flasks) of the second half of the fifth century B.C. ❋ Unknown (1998)
Rolling the two ivory handles on the table before him, he advanced his red-figured scroll with a rustling of parchment. ❋ Carpenter, Leonard (1988)
Four supper-couches of pale polished pearwood, a sideboard with a fine wine-cooler and red-figured cups, a little gilt Aphrodite on a marble stand. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)
Loeschke thinks that the origin of red-figured pottery is to be found in the dark ground and light coloring of these steles. ❋ Various (N/A)
On a red-figured vase the god is portrayed as a calf-headed child seated on a womans lap. ❋ Unknown (1922)
On a red-figured vase the god is portrayed as a calf-headed child seated on a woman's lap. ❋ Unknown (1922)
At the end of the Republic, the potters of Northern Italy conducted factories of enormous output, for they had with their artistic red-figured ware captured the markets of the whole Mediterranean basin. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)
Joe Kennedy was superintendent, and his family were fashionable people, their parlor curtains were some red cotton stuff, probably what is known as turkey red; there was a white and red-figured border; they were looped over gilt rods meant to look like spears and muskets, in deference, I suppose, to the military side of that government building, for there were sentinels and guards stationed around about that ❋ Unknown (1912)
The red-figured and black-figured styles coexisted for perhaps half a century, but the new style ultimately drove the old one out of the market. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)
Berlin Day Paper (Tageblatt) "Whoever has seen and heard Booth in a huge Meeting in Circus Busch will never forget him -- the snow-white, flowing beard and the great, upright figure in the blue uniform, with the red-figured jersey, the furrowed face of typical English character, and the finely mobile orator's mouth, with the searching eyes under the noble forehead, and the prominent nose that gave him almost the aspect of an eagle." ❋ Unknown (1881)
Marenga came dressed in a red-figured silk shawl, and attended by about ten court beauties, who spread a mat for him, then a cloth above, and sat down as if to support him. ❋ Ed (1874)
