The art of the Cycladic islands.
c. 3200 to 1100 B.C.E.
The art of the Cycladic islands.
c. 3200 to 1100 B.C.E.
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The people of the ancient Aegean were great seafarers and traders, talented potters, painters, jewelers, weavers and carvers of stone.
The ancient Cycladic islands are perhaps best known for the elegant, small-scale marble sculptures—nearly all of women—known as Cycladic Figurines.
Hidden under volcanic ash for millennia, the beautiful frescoes in the houses of Akrotiri were recently unearthed.
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