Written by Robin Sinclair Cormack
Written by Robin Sinclair Cormack
Western painting
Written by Robin Sinclair Cormack
The light-on-dark style of pottery was by now replaced by dark-on-light ornamentation. At first (roughly 1600–1500 bc), curvilinear patterns and simple designs of vegetation predominated. Between 1500 and about 1450 bc, however, there flourished the Marine style, possibly the most successful of all Minoan pottery styles. Nearly every form of marine life is accurately reproduced in a riotous allover arrangement: octopuses, argonauts, dolphins, and fish, against a background of rocks and waves. In the 70 or 80 years after 1450 bc, the spontaneity of the early Marine style degenerated into a rigid formality. Subsequently, Late ... (100 of 71,656 words)Vase paintings
Late Minoan