Daedalic sculpture

Daedalic sculpture

 or Daidalic sculpture

Kneeling youth from Samos, Greece, ivory decorative finial for a cithara in the Daedalic style, …

(credit: Courtesy of the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Athens)

Type of figurative sculpture attributed by later Greeks to the legendary Greek artist Daedalus (Daidalos), associated with Bronze Age Crete and early Archaic sculpture in Greece. Daedalic sculpture displays Eastern (“Orientalizing”) influences: wiglike hair, large eyes, and prominent nose; the female body is flatly geometric with a high waist and formless drapery. The style was used in figurines, on clay plaques, and in relief decoration on vases.