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Proto-Geometric style
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Proto-Geometric style

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Proto-Geometric amphora from Athens, early 10th century BC; in the Kerameikos Museum, Athens.
(credit: Hirmer Fotoarchiv, Munich)
Visual art style of ancient Greece that signaled the reawakening of technical proficiency and conscious creative spirit after the collapse of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, around the 12th century BC. The vocabulary of the style was limited to circles, arcs, triangles, and wavy lines, all derived from Minoan-Mycenaean representations of aquatic and plant life. On pottery, these design elements were carefully placed in horizontal bands, mainly at a vase's shoulder or belly. Its lower portion was usually either left plain or painted in a solid glossy black pigment inherited from Bronze Age artists.



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