{Evolution on Archaic Greek Vases}[7th February 1991]

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There is an interesting development from the collapse of Mycenaean civilisation and its art:

{Greek} Dark Ages (c1200-900BCE)[:]

‘In the pottery of the 11^th century BC[E] it can be seen that the old Bronze Age shapes persisted but that the simple floral patterns of the earlier period had been stylised out of recognition and poorly executed.

Proto-Geometric:

‘Before the end of the 11^th century [BCE], however, when Greece began to recover from the invasions, life and culture began to develop rapidly, and the vase painter took a new interest in his craft. Shapes were tauter and better proportioned, and the old patterns were executed with a new finesse, aided by improved equipment – a multiple brush and compasses. With these, the painter decorated selected areas of his vase with distinctive concentric circles and semi-circles; he admitted but few other patterns – simple zigzags and wavy lines.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 25: 325

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