greek art

Greece has a rich artistic history that spans some 5000 years, it started in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistoric civilization. It gave birth to western classical art, in took influence from Eastern civilizations engulfed Italian and European ideas during the Romanticism period and the new orthodox Christianity religion in the Byzantine era. Greek art has four main forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, and pottery.There are 3 scholarly distinctions of ancient Greek art: archaic, classical, and Hellenistic.