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Prehistory
Authors: Mikrakis, Manolis
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Chapter 6 offers an overview of the arts in the prehistoric Aegean, with a particular focus on the Neolithic, Early Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean cultures. Key focal points in this survey include small-scale sculpture in clay, marble, bronze, and ivory; pottery and vase painting; monumental wall paintings; stone and metal vessels with relief decoration; exceptionally intricate seal engraving; and occasional examples of larger-scale sculpture in stone and clay. Given that the entire visual corpus of the prehistoric Aegean reaches the modern researcher as a “picture book without words”—that is, without accompanying written sources to aid interpretation—the study of these materials lends itself to the development of purely visual interpretive methods, supported by archaeological data. The chapter concludes by examining the decline of the arts in the Greek mainland during the 12th, 11th, and 10th centuries BCE.
Linguistic Editors: Kalliaras, Dimitrios
Graphic Editors: Kentrotis, Christos
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 11-07-2025
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/14984
Bibliographic Reference: Mikrakis, M. (2025). Prehistory [Chapter]. In Mikrakis, M. 2025. Arts and reality – The visual world of Greek Antiquity [Monograph]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/14984
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Arts and reality – The visual world of Greek Antiquity
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions