The durable, weather-proof decorative plates/paintings currently adorn the walls of a seaside villa in Greece. Some pieces of the series are also in use as fruit plates. Their frost-resistant quality makes them suited to ornament exterior façades.
Painted plates as sculptural ceramic pictures had their golden age during the renaissance. Important events were memorialized with gifts of such ornamental plates, such as weddings and births. Their most common themes were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings. The late renaissance saw the appearance of realistically depicted, painted, sculptural illusion of forms such as ocean life, snakes, and flowers.
This 360 degree panorama of the forest suggests that the observer’s point of view is the centre of the bowl, from inside to out.
Landscape paintings on thrown bases,
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Material: landscape paintings made of chamotte clay on thrown bases
Sizes D = 50 cm
1996
