red-figure

American  

[red-fig-yer] / ˈrɛdˌfɪg yər /

Or red-figured

adjective

1. pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the latter part of the 6th and the 5th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by figurative representations in red against a black-slip background, details painted in the design, and the introduction of three-dimensional illusion in the rendering of form and space.

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Etymology

Origin of red-figure

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The sixth-century B.C. red-figure krater had been looted in 1971 from a Cerveteri tomb and sold a year later to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $1 million, an unprecedented sum at that time.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2022

This red-figure krater, used for mixing wine with water, is attributed to a recognized artist known as the Baltimore Painter because one of his noted works is in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

A birdie at the sixth was erased by a bogey at the 10th, and with Leishman on a red-figure tear, Woods was mostly a bystander the rest of the afternoon.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 26, 2020

Berlin’s Antikensammlung has lent a marvellous fifth-century BC red-figure skyphos, or cup, that shows Odysseus shooting his bow at the suitors who are hounding his wife, Penelope.

From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2019

The general method of painting remains that of the Athenian red-figure vases, but with entire loss of simplicity or refinement, either in the ornamentation, the choice of colours, or the drawing of the figures.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various