Archaic sculpture in ancient Greece
Archaic sculpture: Stone statues of Kleobis and Biton Life-size stone sculptures As the Greeks came out of the Dark Ages, about 1000 BC, they began to produce life-size stone sculpture [...]
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Red figure pottery in ancient Greece
Red figure vase from Athens, showing Herakles wrestling Antaeus Problems with black figure Around 530 BC, Athenian potters were more and more frustrated by the black-figure way of vase-painting. (More about [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean Pottery
Kamares ware (Crete, ca. 2000 BC) While the Mycenaean Greeks were making the gray Minyan Ware, the Minoans on the island of Crete were producing vividly colored pots with black [...]
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Ancient Greek pottery
Greek pottery: A vase from Neolithic Sesklo, in Greece (5000 BC) Very few Greek painted pictures have survived the 2500 years since they were painted. So most of what we [...]
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Greek Geometric Pottery
Dipylon Vase (Geometric pottery), a grave marker from Athens. This vase is about six feet tall! Archaic period pottery Gradually the Sub-Mycenaean pottery of the Greek Dark Ages developed into [...]
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What is Minyan Ware? Early Bronze Age
A depas cup in Minyan ware A new kind of pottery The Yamnaya, or Indo-European Greeks, arrived in Greece around 2100 BC and defeated the people who were already living [...]
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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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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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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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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 [...]
