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Geometric art, the Glossary

Geometric art is a phase of Greek art, characterized largely by geometric motifs in vase painting, that flourished towards the end of the Greek Dark Ages and a little later,.^[1]

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Abstract art

Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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The Aegean Islands are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.

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Amphora

An amphora (ἀμφορεύς|; English) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land or sea.

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Apulian vase painting

Apulian vase painting was a regional style of South Italian vase painting from ancient Apulia in southeast Italy. Geometric art and Apulian vase painting are ancient Greek vase-painting styles.

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Black-figure pottery

Black-figure pottery painting, also known as the black-figure style or black-figure ceramic (μελανόμορφα||), is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. Geometric art and black-figure pottery are ancient Greek vase-painting styles.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Ceramic art

Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay.

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Cerveteri

Cerveteri is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Italian region of Lazio.

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Chariot racing

Chariot racing (ἁρματοδρομία, harmatodromía; ludi circenses) was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sports.

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Corinth

Corinth (Kórinthos) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.

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Dipylon Amphora

The Dipylon Amphora (also known as Athens 804) is a large Ancient Greek painted vase, made around 760–750 BC, and is now held by the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Geometric art and Dipylon Amphora are 8th-century BC works and Iron Age Greek art.

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Dipylon Master

The Dipylon Master was an ancient Greek vase painter who was active from around 760–750 BC.

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Greek art

Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period).

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Greek Dark Ages

The Greek Dark Ages (1200–800 BC), were earlier regarded as two continuous periods of Greek history: the Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) and the Prehistoric Iron Age or Early Iron Age (c. 1050–800 BC), which included all the ceramic phases from the Protogeometric to the Middle Geometric I and lasted until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age around 800 BC. Geometric art and Greek Dark Ages are 9th century BC in Greece.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Helladic chronology

Helladic chronology is a relative dating system used in archaeology and art history.

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Hetaira

A,, also, (ἑταίρα, 'companion';: ἑταῖραι; hetaera;: hetaerae), was a type of courtesan or prostitute in ancient Greece, who served as an artist, entertainer and conversationalist in addition to providing sexual service.

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History of Athens

Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

The Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is located in Kerameikos, Athens, Greece and was built in 1937.

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Krater

A krater or crater (κρᾱτήρ|krātḗr|mixing vessel,; crātēr) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water.

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Lekythos

A lekythos (λήκυθος;: lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil.

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Linearity

In mathematics, the term linear is used in two distinct senses for two different properties.

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Lying in repose

Lying in repose is the tradition in which the body of a deceased person, often of high social stature, is made available for public viewing.

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Meander (art)

A meander or meandros (Μαίανδρος) is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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Mycenaean pottery

Mycenaean pottery is the pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean period in Ancient Greece. Geometric art and Mycenaean pottery are ancient Greek vase-painting styles.

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Narrative art

Narrative art is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time.

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National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The National Archaeological Museum (translit) in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity.

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Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.

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Odysseus

In Greek and Roman mythology, Odysseus (Odyseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixes), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

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Orientalizing period

In the Archaic phase of ancient Greek art, the Orientalizing period or Orientalizing revolution (also spelled "Orientalising") is the cultural and art historical period that began during the later part of the 8th century BC, when there was a heavy influence from the more advanced art of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East. Geometric art and Orientalizing period are 8th century BC in Greece, 8th-century BC works, ancient Greek vase-painting styles and Iron Age Greek art.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Polyphemus

Polyphemus (Polyphēmos,; Polyphēmus) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.

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Pottery

Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.

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Protogeometric style

The Protogeometric style (or Proto-Geometric) is a style of Ancient Greek pottery led by Athens produced between roughly 1050 and 900 BCE, in the first period of the Greek Dark Ages. Geometric art and Protogeometric style are ancient Greek vase-painting styles, Greek Dark Ages and Iron Age Greek art.

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Red-figure pottery

Red-figure pottery is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left in the natural red or orange color of the clay. Geometric art and red-figure pottery are ancient Greek vase-painting styles.

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Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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Swastika

The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly found in various Eurasian cultures, as well as some African and American ones.

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Symposium

In Ancient Greece, the symposium (συμπόσιον, sympósion or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, "to drink together") was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation.

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Torso

The torso or trunk is an anatomical term for the central part, or the core, of the body of many animals (including humans), from which the head, neck, limbs, tail and other appendages extend.

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Zigzag

A zigzag is a pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, though constant within the zigzag, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_art

Also known as Geometric Greek art, Geometric Period, Geometric Style, Geometric periods, Geometric pottery, Geometric vase painting, Geometrical period, Middle Geometrical, The Geometric Period.

Geometric art, the Glossary

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See also

8th century BC in Greece

8th-century BC works

9th century BC in Greece

9th-century BC works

Ancient Greek vase-painting styles

Greek Dark Ages

Iron Age Greek art

References