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