Greek Art

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eometric-period sculpture, in bronze and clay, have been found. The sculptures include a small bronze statuette of Apollo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). Figures of this period are not direct visual representations but are based on the artist’s conceptions.
Architecture of the Geometric and Orientalizing periods consisted of simple structures of mud brick and rubble. The earliest houses were circular huts, which evolved into elliptical and subsequently horseshoelike shapes. Later houses became rectangular, built on an east-west axis with an entrance and a columned porch at one end. Roofs were flat mud or thatched gable.
The basic plan of temples was similar to that of houses. Foundations of temples of the late Geometric period have been found in Sámos, Sparta, Olympia, and Crete (Kríti). Somewhat later temple foundations in Eretria and Thermon have a horseshoe plan. In rectangular temples the two side walls projected beyond the front wall to form a porch. Within the single room, or cella, the wooden beams of the gable roof were supported b...