#Terracotta

[romegreeceart]

Ancient clothing

Medelhavsmuseet. Stockholm

Stockholm, November 2023

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Plaque.

Culture: Italic, Etruscan

Period: Late Archaic Period or early Classical Period

Date: ca. 470 B.C.

Medium: Terracotta

[theinternetarchive]

tanagra terracotta figurines depicting a haircut, cheese making, and a scribe, greece c. 199 b.c.

[ancientcharm]

Terracotta vase decorated with a beautiful painting. Colors are incredibly preserved. From Sicily, 2nd Century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Photo: © Ozymandias (Flickr)

[illustratus]

The Mask Seller by Cesare Mariani

[vintagehomecollection]

House Beautiful Weekend Homes, 1990

[recherchestetique]

Terracotta vase - Sicily, 2nd Century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[thatshowthingstarted]

Terracotta warriors, Cypro-Archaic II, Cypriot

Buried beneath the unassuming landscape of Agia Eirini lay an ancient sanctuary that had remained hidden for over 2,000 years.

Spanning an area of nearly 4,000 square meters, the site contained an extensive collection of terracotta figures – over 2,000 in total – ranging from life-sized warriors and horsemen to smaller religious and domestic figurines.

The terracotta army at Agia Eirini likely served as a ritual space for the training and veneration of soldiers, with the figures representing both individual warriors and collective military units.

Interestingly, many of the warrior statues were found in a state of partial disrepair, with broken limbs or missing weapons. This suggests that the figures may have been intentionally “killed” or “decommissioned” as part of a ritual process, perhaps to symbolize the transition of a soldier from active duty to the afterlife.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Terracotta ~

[didoofcarthage]

Red-figure loutrophoros with front depicting mythological scenes and back depicting naiskos (grave monument) with young woman

Attributed to the Painter of Louvre MNB 1148

Greek (from Apulia), Classical Period, c. 330 B.C.

J. Paul Getty Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Greek terracotta statuette of a draped woman. Traces of pink on her clothing and of gilding on her diadem survive. The statuette may come from the polis of Myrina in western Anatolia, which was a major center of terracotta manufacture in the Hellenistic period. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. BCE. 29.2 cm (11.5 in) high. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Photo credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[arc-hus]

Volta House, Puerto Escondido, Mexico - Ambrosi I Etchegaray

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Kylix with a Symposion Scene.

Artist, attributed to: Gales Painter (Greek, Attic, active ca. 530–ca. 500. B.C.)

Culture: Greek, Attic

Period: Late Archaic

Medium: Terracotta, red-figure with added red

[walzerjahrhundert]

Auguste Rodin

Fallen caryatid carrying an urn

1883

[claypigeonpottery]

This 2500 year old pottery reminds me of your work, and I love that.

https://bsky.app/profile/cmddog.com/post/3ljgqxqqpi22m

omg that face!

here’s a bit more about it for anyone interested

[artdecodude]

Some world-class #ArtDeco #TerraCotta at Visitacion Valley Elementary School in #SanFrancisco #California 📸:me/02/2025