# Istoriato (イストリアート) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.514 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/istoriato
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Istoriato, a style from Ceramic Styles, c. 1500–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: laying out a plate or tile series where the painting runs to the rim instead of stopping at a border, or fitting one narrative moment into a circular field, on a dish or on any other round format. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- One continuous scene from well to rim, with no decorative band cutting it off
- Polychrome painting in yellow, blue, green and brown over a white tin glaze
- Figures set inside a receding landscape or architecture, the composition borrowed straight from painting
- The scene carrying on across the curved rim, so the image distorts with the vessel's form

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Treat the well of the dish as a single picture plane and let the scene cross the rim rather than ending at a border. Group figures in the middle ground and open the upper field to sky and architecture
- Type and lettering: Keep lettering out of the picture. If a scene needs naming, move the text off the field and write it small in a fine cursive hand
- Material and surface: Paint directly in coloured pigments onto a raw white tin glaze, then fire so the colour sinks into the glaze. Nothing can be repainted, so every stroke is laid once
- Colour: #F1E7D2 carries the ground, #C8952F is the colour the style is remembered by, #3E6A9E holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: luxury, exhilaration

## What goes wrong

Ringing the scene with a decorative border undoes the style, because it depends on the picture claiming the entire surface.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/istoriato/design.md