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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities: The Origins of Greek Art, the Bronze Age, and the Geometric Style (3200-720 BC)

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The Origins of Greek Art, the Bronze Age, and the Geometric Style (3200-720 BC)

The origin of Aegean art is represented in the Louvre by works from the early 3rd millennium BC. The Mycenean civilization, which succeeded the pre-Hellenic Cyclades and Minoan civilizations, has left us the earliest examples of Greek artistic expression.

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Hybrid Creatures of the Ancient Greek World
Greek imagery is peopled with strange figures: major and minor divinities, personifications, terrifying monsters combining two or more species of animal. As ancient Greek art evolved, each creature quickly developed its own distinctive appearance, symbolizing its character and function.

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