Can someone tell me where i can find information about the history of vases? i'm doing a school report and i have to give a one-page paper about vases, the first known ones and how they've developed through the ages. Wikipedia was no help, and every time i type "history of vases" into my search engine, i keep getting results dealing with historical vases and where to buy them...i really need help, because this paper is due tomorrow...
2007-12-12 10:04:34 · 4 answers · asked by rebel_without_a_pause1989 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Sculpture
There are different vases of Egypt like the Wishing Cup, so look it up at egyptology.com, or you can look on wikipedia and try to see if they had what you're looking for. Sorry if it isn't, but I hope this helps.
2007-12-12 10:10:56 · answer #1 · answered by caseycatastrophicxx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a vase is a roughly V shaped object for holding flowers, as opposed to a container with a narrow neck that can be corked or otherwise sealed, you are still going way, way back. Mostly pottery back when, later glass and metal.
To make it more exciting, when I put in 'vases Greek', the first return showed a hundred vases, many of which I would have thought of by their specific names.
http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/vases/vase_shapes.html
try vases Persia, vases India, vases Egypt, vases Chinese, vases Roman, etc.
vase stone http://www.geocities.com/unforbidden_geology/ancient_egyptian_stone_vase_making.html
2007-12-12 23:35:47 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start off by talking about the way that archeologists have put together pieces (shards) found in the earth or graves. See site I have given. Also here are illustrations of different shapes of Greek vases, and their possible uses.
http://www.artfromgreece.com/vshapes.html
And if you go to http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-244731/Greek-pottery you will see the dates when different types of pottery/vases were made and what they looked like etc. This should be plenty of material for your paper.
2007-12-13 02:03:51 · answer #3 · answered by angela l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A vase by any other name would look as sweet."
The rose of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594 might well have sat in a lovely vase. The design of which, both then as now, must please the eye with or without flowers.
2007-12-13 00:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋