Terracotta

A baked or semi-fired material that is usually a mixture of clay, grog, and water; it may be glazed prior to firing.

Basics Works of Art

Terracotta

A baked or semi-fired material that is usually a mixture of clay, grog, and water; it may be glazed prior to firing.

Basics Works of Art

Basics to get you started

What is ceramic art?

Greek Vase-Painting, an introduction

Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials

Ancient Greek vase production and the black-figure technique

Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa

Making Greek vases

Works of Art

Hut urns in Iron Age Italy

c. 9th–7th century B.C.E.

Donatello, Annunciation

1433–35

Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building

1899 and 1903–04

Assyrian revival architecture in New York City

1909–28

Bushel with ibex motifs

4000–3500 B.C.E.

The Synagogue at Dura-Europos

c. late 2nd–mid-3rd century C.E.

Filippo Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel

c. 1440s–60s

Guido Mazzoni, Head of a Man

1480s

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