Who was the Berlin Painter? Greek pottery
A vase by the Berlin Painter, from ancient Athens Where did the Berlin Painter live? One of the most famous Greek red-figure vase painters is known today as the Berlin [...]
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Ancient Greek painting – ancient Greece
Attacking a town with ships (Thera, ca. 1600 BC) The oldest paintings in Europe are cave paintings from Western Europe, but the Greeks probably learned to create art not from [...]
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Classical Greek painting – ancient Greece
Tomb of the Diver (ca. 500 BC) Classical Greek painting Artists in Classical Greece continued to favor the stiffer Mycenaean style of painting more than the looser, fancier Minoan style. [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean Greek painting
Dolphin fresco, Knossos, Crete (about 1500 BC) Although people in Northern Europe were doing cave paintings tens of thousands of years earlier, the first paintings from Greece are not until [...]
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Listen to ancient Greek music
Ancient Greek music: an enslaved woman plays a lyre Some people have been trying to figure out what ancient Greek music might have sounded like. But most of what we [...]
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Musicians in ancient Greece
Ancient Greek musicians: A teacher shows a boy how to play pipes; a lyre hangs on the wall Who played music in ancient Greece? Both women and men played musical [...]
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Greek art history: rhythm, order, and pattern – Ancient Greece
Greek art: A slave woman plays a kithara (Athens, ca. 480 BC) Greek art: order and chaos Artists in ancient Greece thought of art as a way of creating order [...]
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Iron Age art of northern Europe
Iron Age art: Villanovan cremation urn with helmet on top (ca. 900 BC) Is it okay to represent people? In the beginning of the Iron Age, about 1000 BC, people [...]
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Stone Age art of northern Europe
Stone Age art in Northern Europe: A herd of horses (Chauvet cave, France, ca. 30,000 BC) Cave paintings The first modern humans who arrived in Northern Europe, around 45,000 BC, [...]
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Bronze Age art of northern Europe
Valmonica, Italy (ca. 2000 BC?) Were artists still doing rock art? Yes! Bronze Age artists kept on carving rock art all across Europe, using it to show the new horses [...]
