Mycenaean Art happened from roughly 1550 to 1200 BC on the Greek mainland. Even though the Mycenaean and Greek cultures were 2 separate entities, they occupied the identical lands, successively. The latter learned a few things from the former, including how to construct gates and tombs.
Besides architectural explorations including Cyclopean masonry and “beehive” tombs, the Mycenaean’s were breathtaking goldsmiths and potters. They raised terracotta from merely functional to beautifully decorative and segued right out of the Bronze Age into their own insatiable appetite for gold. Approximately 1200 and the Homeric fall of Troy, the Mycenaean culture declined and died, followed by an artistic period known both as Sub-Mycenaean or the “Dark Ages”. (Read the full post about ‘Art Forms of The Greek Posted By : Vijay Kanth’…)