| Mycenaean Art happened from roughly 1550 to 1200 | | | | artistic period known both as Sub-Mycenaean or the |
| BC on the Greek mainland. Even though the | | | | "Dark Ages". This phase, lasting from c. 1100 - 1025 BC, |
| Mycenaean and Greek cultures were 2 separate | | | | saw a bit of permanence with the previous artistic |
| entities, they occupied the identical lands, successively. | | | | doings, but no improvement. |
| The latter learned a few things from the former, | | | | From 1025 - 900 BC, the Proto-Geometric period saw |
| including how to construct gates and tombs. | | | | earthenware beginning to be decorated with simple |
| Besides architectural explorations including Cyclopean | | | | shapes, black bands and wavy lines |
| masonry and "beehive" tombs, the Mycenaean's were | | | | Geometric Art has been dispensed through the years |
| breathtaking goldsmiths and potters. They raised | | | | of 900 - 700 BC. Its name is wholly descriptive of the |
| terracotta from merely functional to beautifully | | | | art created during this period. Pottery decoration |
| decorative and segued right out of the Bronze Age | | | | moved ahead of simple shapes to also include animals |
| into their own insatiable appetite for gold. | | | | and humans. Everything, however, was provided with |
| Approximately 1200 and the Homeric fall of Troy, the | | | | the use of simple geometric shapes. |
| Mycenaean culture declined and died, followed by an | | | | |