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The origins of images and monumentality
Authors: Mikrakis, Manolis
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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.
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/11419/14985
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
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Arts and reality – The visual world of Greek Antiquity
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions