Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Hellenistic Era Sphinx and Oedipus

#sphinx #oedipus #vase #greekart


In the #Hellenistic period there were a shift back to using white slip as a background for paintings on ceramic vessels.

Images were created using something like tempera and added after firing so many of this type of ceramics have faded colors however you still still make out traces of blue gray on the wing feathers of this piece.


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