Description
Western sculpture - Ancient Greek, Marble, Statues: Greek art no doubt owed much indirectly to the Minoan-Mycenaean civilization (now known in its later stages to have been Greek), which disintegrated at the end of the 2nd millennium bce, partly under the impact of a series of invasions from the Balkans. The period covered by this section, however, begins about 900 bce with the kaleidoscopic rearrangement of invaders and earlier inhabitants into a new pattern, which was followed by a steady artistic development—continuing without interruption down to the conquest of Greece by Rome in 146 bce. Even this diverted, rather than interrupted, the flow, and Greek artists continued
