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The continuity of Greek and medieval art was assured by the
bond between caelatura or engraving and illumination.
* In his Approach to Greek Art (p. 43) Charles Seltman
writes:
The Greeks had no paper: papyrus was expensive,
reserved for documents and unsuitable for drawing. Wax
tablets had no permanence. In fact, the surface of the
vase was the drawing-paper of the artist. . . . It is
significant that from 650 B.C. onwards Athenian potters
had already established a big export trade and were
sending their products overseas to Aegina, Italy, and the
East.
Seltman in this passage indicates why the Greeks made so