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ID: 300387166
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300387166

 

Record Type: concept
Kamares ware (Minoan) (<pottery by kiln, location, or style>, pottery (visual works), ... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Middle Minoan pottery found mainly at Knossos, Phaistos, and the Kamáres cave sanctuary, for which it is named. It is characterized by a dark lustrous ground to which ornament is added in red and white, with sophisticated designs in curvilinear abstract patterns, and stylized plant, marine, and figural motifs. It often employed the distinctive compositional device of torsion, where the balance of opposing compositional forces was emphasized, for example, with two opposed diagonal compositions twisting around the vase. The potter's wheel was generally used for smaller vessels, and larger vessels were made by hand using the older method.
 
Terms:
Kamares ware (Minoan) (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,U)
ware, Kamares (Minoan) (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
Kamáres ware (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
Kamares-aardewerk (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.VC

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
.... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Visual Works (hierarchy name)
........ Visual Works (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of visual works (works)
............ visual works (works) (G)
Hierarchy of <visual works by material or technique>
................ <visual works by material or technique> (G)
Hierarchy of ceramic ware (visual works)
.................... ceramic ware (visual works) (G)
Hierarchy of pottery (visual works)
........................ pottery (visual works) (G)
Hierarchy of <pottery by kiln, location, or style>
............................ <pottery by kiln, location, or style> (G)
Hierarchy of Kamares ware (Minoan)
................................ Kamares ware (Minoan) (G)

Additional Notes:
Dutch ..... Middel-Minoïsch pottenbakkersgoed dat hoofdzakelijk gevonden is in Knossos, Phaistos en de heilige grot van Kamáres, waarnaar het is vernoemd. Het wordt gekenmerkt door een donkere, glanzende grondverf waar in rode en witte verf decoratie op wordt aangebracht, in complexe ontwerpen met abstracte patronen van gebogen lijnen en gestileerde planten, dieren of menselijke figuren. In deze traditie werd veel gebruik gemaakt van de karakteristieke torsie-compositietechniek, waarbij de nadruk werd gelegd op de balans tussen tegenovergestelde compositie-elementen. Zo draaiden bijvoorbeeld twee diagonale figuren tegenover elkaar rondom een vaas. Het pottenbakkerswiel werd over het algemeen alleen gebruikt voor kleinere vaten, terwijl grotere vaten volgens de oudere methode met de hand werden gemaakt. 

Related concepts:
reflect/produced by ....  Kamares (pottery style)
....................................  (Minoan pottery styles, Aegean pottery styles, ... Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) [300020246]

Sources and Contributors:
Kamares-aardewerk............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
................................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
................................  UvA Talen
Kamares ware (Minoan)............  [VP Preferred]
......................................  Gardner's Art Through the Ages (2013)
......................................  Grove Art Online (2008-)
......................................  Janson, History of Art (1986)
......................................  Lucie-Smith, Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms (2004)
......................................  Oxford Companion to Art (1996)
Kamáres ware............  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
ware, Kamares (Minoan)............  [VP]
.........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2008-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)
.......... UvA Talen

 

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