And perhaps an observer of the vases will not go too far in deducing that the outlook of their makers and users was basically stable and secure.

Melian vases came in their turn to Crete.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

Attic painted vases depict mature satyrs as being strongly built with flat noses, large pointed ears, long curly hair, and full beards, with wreaths of vine or ivy circling their balding heads.

There were vases, bottles, bricks, but most of all, hundreds of oil lamps, each bearing their maker's name ", Donato Labate, the archaeologist in charge of the dig, stated.

He seized and bound them at Ephesus and punished them by tying them to a shoulder pole he slung over his shoulder with their faces pointing downwards, the only way they appear on Greek vases.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented e. g. in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

Together with the painted Etruscan tombs, the Lucanian tombs and the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, the frescoes from Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Greek vases, they are the best preserved paintings from ancient times and are renowned for their remarkable naturalism.

Rococo frivolity and Baroque movement had been stripped away but many artists struggled to put anything in their place, and in the absence of ancient examples for history painting, other than the Greek vases used by Flaxman, Raphael tended to be used as a substitute model, as Winckelmann recommended.

Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance.

Visitors to Silica can try their hand at making various objects, such as vases or glass cups.

The Greeks and Romans kept their wines and other liquids in large vases called Cadus or Amphorae, sealed with pine resin.

In his 1806 memoir on the so-called Etruscan vases Dei vasi antichi dipinti volgarmente chiamati Etruschi, Lanzi rightly perceived their Greek origin and characters.

Greek vases, especially during their Geometric Period, were likely the genesis for the widespread use of meanders ; alternatively, very ocean-like patterns of waves also appeared in the same format as meanders, which can also be thought of as the guilloche pattern.

Crete, and especially the islands of the Cyclades, are characterized by their attraction to the vases known as “ plastic ”, i. e. those whose paunch or collar is moulded in the shape of head of an animal or a man.

Some of the leading vase painters of Athens, such as the Pioneer Group, seem to have reveled in adding text to their vases and it is a testament to their literacy and cultural daring that they did so.

He possibly anticipated some of their innovations or was influenced by them toward the end of his painting career: on many of his vases women are only shown in outline, without a black filling, and they are no longer identifiable as women by the application of opaque white as skin color.

The depiction of the horses is also unique ; they have individual temperaments and are not reduced to their function as noble animals, as is otherwise customary on vases.

But black-figure vases continued to be produced for some 50 additional years, with their quality progressively decreasing.

The workshop of the Haimon Painter was especially productive ; over 600 of their vases have survived.

The vases got their misleading name from the depiction on a vase of archers thought to be Scythians, who lived at the Black Sea ( Pontus ).

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

The men in Pettigrew's were tired from a night's drinking, their faces red and baggy.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.

Mr. Manuel whispered in the ears of the Sioux that the Cheyennes were comin' to raid 'em for their horses.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

The trees were crowded so closely together that their branches overlapped, virtually shutting out the sun completely.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

Although they were forced to maintain a sharper watch, this activity enabled them to ride in and rack their broncs without any particular attention being paid them.

To the west, the dark green hills of Leyte were lost in the clouds about halfway up their slopes.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

The Command offices were in the border country, up north, where the radar systems centralized their intelligence reports, and the fighters were dispatched to harry the enemy.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.