Paintings From Classical Greek Era
Paintings From Classical Greek Era
Paintings From Classical Greek Era
LEBES GAMIKOS
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LEKANIS VASE
KRATER VASE
Panel Painting
There are paintings on flat panels of
wood. It can be either a small, single
piece or several panels joined
together. Most of the panel paintings
no longer exist because of its organic
composition.
Tomb / Wall Painting
Tomb or wall painting was very popular
during the classical period. It uses the
method frescos either tempera (water-base)
or encaustic (wax). It has a sharp, flatly
outlined style of painting and because it
uses water-based materials, very few
samples survived.
In tomb paintings, artists rely on the shade and hues of
paint to create depth and life-like feeling.
Paintings from the
Romantic Era
Most of the paintings in this era were
copied or imitated from Hellenic Greek
paintings. Fresco technique was used in
brightly colored backgrounds; division of
the wall into a multiple rectangular
areas (tic-tac-toe design); multipoint
perspective; and a tropme-l’-oeil effect.
Roman paintings have a wide variety of
subjects, animals, everyday life, still life,
mythological subjects, portraits and
landscapes.
The development of landscape painting
is the main innovation of Roman
painting from Greek painting.
Mosaic
It is an art process where an image is
created using an assemblage of small
pieces of colored glass, stones, or other
materials.
This technique use for decorative art or
interior decorations.
The full image is a
Roman floor mosaic
in the House of Fun
Pompei, dated 100
B.C. The whole
mosaic depicts the
battle between the
armies of Alexander
the Great and Darius
III of Persia.
Fresco from the Villa
of Mysteries,
Pompeii. 80 BC