red-figure
or red-fig·ured
[ red-fig-yer ]
adjective
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.
Origin of red-figure
1First recorded in 1890–95
- Compare black-figure.
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