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 Translation for 'vase painting' from English to Russian
NOUN1   a vase painting [artwork] | vase paintings
NOUN2   vase painting [genre] | -
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вазопись {ж}
vase painting
ваза {ж}vase
фарфоровая ваза {ж}china vase
фарфоровая ваза {ж}porcelain vase
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живопись {ж}
painting [activity]
картина {ж} [произведение живописи]painting [picture]
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пейзажная живопись {ж}
landscape painting [genre]
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Usage Examples English
  • A Greek vase painting from 440 BC shows a boy playing with a yo-yo (see right).
  • The stag as a gift from Apollo reflects the custom in Archaic Greek society of the older male "(erastēs)" giving his beloved an animal, an act often alluded to in vase painting.
  • She was depicted in Athenian vase painting as one of the attendants of Aphrodite.
  • ... 590–570 BC) apparently shows a single lion-headed Cerberus, in Attic vase painting Cerberus usually has two dog heads.
  • By the Roman period vase-painting had largely died out, and utilitarian amphorae were normally the only type produced.

  • This was a mixture of ceramic slip and overglaze "enamel" paints used to imitate ancient Greek vase painting, and given a light second firing.
  • In particular, Dover made use of copious evidence from vase painting as a counterweight to the idealized picture of homoerotic relationships found in Plato.
  • Visual art, such as vase painting, was another medium in which myths of the Trojan War circulated.
  • The Classical garment is represented in Greek vase painting from the 5th century BC and in the metopes of temples in Doric order.
  • In the 4th century BC, South-Italian vase painting offers a number of Medea-representations that are connected to Euripides' play — the most famous is a krater in Munich.

  • This massive chryselephantine sculpture is now lost and known only from copies, vase painting, gems, literary descriptions and coins.
  • Böttiger supplied the descriptive letter-press to the 1797 German edition of Tischbein's reproductions from William Hamilton's second collection of Greek vases, and thus introduced the study of Greek vase-painting into Germany.
  • Metaponto is one of the largest and earliest Greek centres of vase painting in Italy; the Lucanian vase painting began around 430 BC, with the works of the Pisticci Painter.
  • The abduction by Paris was another popular motif in ancient Greek vase-painting; definitely more popular than the kidnapping by Theseus.
  • Menelaus appears in Greek vase painting in the 6th to 4th centuries BC, such as: Menelaus's reception of Paris at Sparta; his retrieval of Patroclus's corpse; and his reunion with Helen.

  • His creative period extended into the Late-Corinthian period (575–550 BC) and his influence cannot be overestimated on vase painting of that time.
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