It is interesting also to find relief-work interracotta as well as painting on a plane surface.
In the Byzantine west wall at Olympia were found great numbers of painted terracotta plates[45] which examination proved to have covered the cornices of the Geloan Treasury.
We note first the change from terracotta to a low painted Page 37 relief in stone, then this relief becomes, from the necessities of the case, higher and higher until finally it gives place to free figures.
In the Marche there is a series of terracotta altarpieces attributed to Pietro Paolo Agabiti, a local painter of the XVI century.
It seems surprising that such a terracotta sheathing should be applied on a structure of stone.
Another important argument is furnished by the certain use of terracottaplates as acroteria.
Further we find reliefs in terracotta pierced with nail-holes and evidently intended for the covering of various wooden objects; sometimes, it is safe to say, for wooden sarcophagi.
When temples came to be built of stone, it seems that this plan of terracotta covering was retained for a time, partly from habit, partly because of its fine decorative effect.
Umbria in general proved even less fruitful, the terracotta monuments being of poor quality and showing little or no Delia Robbia influence.
Terracotta Medallions of Or San Michele, by Luca della Robbia, | | V.
A terracotta figurine[53] from Tarentum helps to make the connection complete.
At Acquapendente I found a unique glazed terracotta altar signed by Jacopo Benevento, at Bolsena took the first photograph of several monuments, and at Viterbo had photographs made of the important lunettes by Andrea Delia Robbia.
Cypriote terracottas, in theTerracotta Room, wall cases 1 and 27; and the Cypriote sculptures in the Cyprus Room.
Compare the heads in a terracotta relief in the British Museum (Ancient Terracottas in B.
A terracotta statuette in an English private collection.
Originally it had been a villa residence--a red-brick villa, covered with creepers and crowned with terracotta dragons.
He looked at the bow-windows, the cheap picturesque gables, the terracotta dragons clawing a dirty sky.
The terracotta sarcophagi were generally parallel, oblong or elongated oval in shape, with an arched or angular covering and several feet.
As for the terracotta figures of human beings and sometimes of animals found in connexion with Yamato sepulchres, they convey little information about the racial problem.
These facts are learned, not from independent relics alone, but also from terracottasteeds found in the tumuli and moulded so as to show all their trappings.
The work of the della Robbia family in glazedterracotta is familiar to all lovers of Italian art.
Dynasty XII Goddess Neith, Bronze Dynasty XXVI Funerary Papyrus Ushabti, Wood Cover of a Canopic Jar, Terracotta Group of Egyptian Alabaster Vessels Bronze Mirror Amulet Sacred Eye and Scarab Piriform Vase.
Pliny also mentions a terracotta figure of Felicitas made by order of Lucullus.
The pots were ranged partly on the floor, partly on terracotta stands over the holes, as at Rheinzabern and Heiligenberg[3142]; at Lezoux there are remains of holes in the walls for iron bars to support them.
Footnote 2456: For references to ornamental terracotta antefixes in Latin literature see below, p.
A terracotta mould for a figure of Venus Anadyomene, found at Clermont-Ferrand, is in the British Museum, and another from Moulins is for the back of the head of a similar figure, with hair elaborately coiled.
Among the types we have figures like those in the Nile-scenes on the terracotta mural reliefs (p.
At Marzabotto, near Bologna, terracotta pipes were used for carrying off the water from the roof of a house, by means of a straight tube through the wall fitting into another which curved upwards inside.
The pottery of St. Rémy-en-Rollat in that neighbourhood is made of the same white clay as the terracotta figures (p.
Terracotta statuettes=, similar in proportions and subjects to those of Greece, are found in houses and tombs of the Roman period, and also as votive objects on sacred sites.
Many have also been found at Cervetri, from which site came some interesting friezes of terracotta now in the British Museum (B 626) and at Berlin.
Footnote 1501: For terracotta examples painted in tempera see B.
A Corpus of all known types of terracotta statuettes, with numerous illustrations and other useful information.
This invention apparently remained for many centuries a secret among the Eastern nations only, enamelled terracotta and glass forming articles of commercial export from Egypt and Phoenicia to every part of the Mediterranean.
Individual vases do not call for much comment, but there is a curious coffer ofterracotta from Thebes in Berlin (Fig.
Now, these conditions are exactly fulfilled in the group of terracotta sarcophagi excavated during the last twenty years at or in the neighbourhood of Clazomenae, on the Gulf of Smyrna.
Other objects that exemplify the use of clay orterracotta in Greek daily life are: moulds for vases and terracotta figures, lamps, weights, and stamps for various purposes.
The actual finds of such vases in the neighbourhood is not great, but is compensated for by the remarkable series of painted terracotta sarcophagi discovered at Clazomenae, the finest of which is now in the British Museum.
Greek vases are not so easy to imitate as terracotta figures, the main difficulty being the black varnish, which can never be successfully reproduced.
We shall have occasion to make further allusion to the use of painted terracottaslabs in Etruscan tombs (Chapter XVIII.
The Terracotta collection in the Royal Museum exhibits about one thousand specimens of vases, &c.
There appears, however, no doubt that these bronzes, as well as the objects in Terracotta already mentioned, are of native manufacture.
On a small terracotta tablet in the British Museum, from Col.
Some specimens of glass, and several terracotta figures, lamps, and jars, dug out of it, are evidently of the time of the Seleucidae or of the Greek occupation.
These terracotta coffins appear to be of the same period as those found in all the great ruins on the banks of the rivers of Mesopotamia, and are not Assyrian.
Among its contents are an Annunciation by Albertinelli, Madonnas by Cosimo Rosselli and Rosso Fiorentino, and a terracotta Madonna by Verrocchio.
Prato can likewise boast some excellent terracotta works by Andrea della Robbia, both outside the Duomo and in the churches of Our Lady of Good Counsel and Our Lady of the Prisons.
Over the portal is a terracotta Coronation of the Madonna by Bicci di Lorenzo, erected in 1424.
The former, built by Michelozzo for Cosimo, contains some beautiful terracotta work of the school of the Della Robbia, a tabernacle by Mino da Fiesole, and a Coronation of the Blessed Virgin ascribed to Giotto.
It contains sculptures by Mino da Fiesole and that later Fiesolan, Andrea Ferrucci (to whom we owe the bust of Marsilio Ficino), and a fine terracotta by one of the Della Robbias.
The coloured terracotta relief is by Giovanni della Robbia.
The coloured terracotta reliefs, by Andrea della Robbia, include two fine portraits of governors of the hospital (not of the Della Robbia themselves, as frequently stated).
Here, too, is an old terracotta bust of Antoninus, and a splendid but damaged picture of Cosimo himself by Jacopo da Pontormo, incomparably finer than that artist's similarly constructed work in the Uffizi.
Snake-coils of a large size were also worn on the legs, as shown by a small terracotta torso from Ephesus, which has this ornament on the thigh (No.
At Rome his dress was peculiar, and is illustrated by the terracotta relief (No.
It is with this kind of dancing that we should probably associate the terracotta figurines (fig.
Some fragments of terracotta show the Cypriote fashion of wearing numerous necklaces together (No.
The terracotta figure of a man carrying a wineskin and one of these diotae (No.
Terracotta Room, and the beautiful bronze ornamental strigil in the Bronze Room (Pedestal 3), with the handle in the form of a girl herself using the strigil.
Several examples in terracotta had long been known, and were explained with little plausibility as covering-tiles.
We get allusions in literature to these dolls and other small terracotta figures, which show that one of their chief uses was the amusement of children.
The terracotta braziers are of characteristic form, with three internal projecting knobs to support the cooking vessel.
Though they were doubtless intended chiefly for little children, women did not altogether disdain these terracotta toys.
A terracotta shows a pair of female musicians (No.
A noble memorial of a master mind is the picture gallery in the grounds of the terracotta designing school founded by the late painter's wife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terracotta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
