A ceramist from Faenza, G. Ballardini employed the term “compendiario” (influenced by the archaeologists) for a kind of roman painting towards the end of the first century A.D.
This painting technique had rapid and essential brush strokes.
The dense, covering white surface had various functions: covering the biscuit, giving higher
nobility to the matter, and giving brightness to the surface. The plates often had little images in the centre executed with fast brush strokes of yellow and deep blue.