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The origins of images and monumentality |
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Authors: |
Mikrakis, Manolis |
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Abstract: |
Chapter 7 examines the re-emergence of figurality and monumentality in the visual arts of Greek antiquity following the end of the so-called “Dark Ages.” The former is explored in vase painting and the latter in stone sculpture. The chapter focuses on the appearance of the first images in Geometric vase painting, the evolution from silhouette technique to outline drawing and to the black-figure technique, as well as the emergence of the first monumental statues ranging from near life-size to over life-size, produced under the influence of Egyptian monumental sculpture. Finally, the chapter explores the social and political transformations that accompanied the rise of the polis (city-state), transformations that brought about a renewed need for pictoriality and monumentality—at least three centuries after both had declined in the Aegean world at the end of the Bronze Age.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Kalliaras, Dimitrios |
Graphic Editors: |
Kentrotis, Christos |
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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/11419/14985 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Mikrakis, M. (2025). The origins of images and monumentality [Chapter]. In Mikrakis, M. 2025. Arts and reality – The visual world of Greek Antiquity [Monograph]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/14985 |
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Greek |
Is Part of: |
Arts and reality – The visual world of Greek Antiquity |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |