Aegean Art and Architecture

The art and architecture of the ancient Aegean Sea was mainly built by three cultures: Cyclades, Minos, Mycene. Most of Cycladic's works are geometric female statues carved with marble. Minos is a successful businessman who built a large palace and decorated with colorful animals and mural paintings of nature. Mycene is also a trader, but they are also active in the army. They are warriors, they built the Great Palace with a fortress with a huge stone wall

The ancient Cycladic culture flourished on the islands of the Aegean Sea. With the Minoan civilization of 3300 BC BC and Greek Mycenae the Cyclades were listed as one of the three cultures of the Aegean Sea. Thus Cycladic art includes one of the three major branches of the Aegean art. Almost all the information on Neolithic art of Cyclades is from Antiparos Saliagos excavation site. Pottery of this period is similar to the pottery of Crete Island and the mainland of Greece. Sinclair Hood wrote as follows. "The unique shape is a tall bowl comparable to the type that occurred during the late neolithic age."

The art of the Aegean Sea is art that was born in the Greek seas and islands of the Aegean Sea, usually around the 11th century BC, before the ancient Greek art started. The Aegean art category includes the golden mask, the image of war, the castle on the hill, the wall of 20 feet thick, the tunnel into the bedrock, the art of Cyclades, the simplicity of Mycenae Art is included. The statue of the famous "Venus" is carved with white marble and the art of Minos is known for its images of animals, image of harvest, light, breeze and non-war architecture, which is opposite to the art of Mycenae. With all these elements in mind, the term "art of the Aegean Sea" is regarded as the design of many art historians as it contains a wide range of culturally diverse arts in the same area in the same period .