Orientalizing style

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Protocorinthian Olpe with animals and sphinxes 640-630 v. BC, Musée du Louvre

The orientalizing style is a ceramic style from the 7th century BC. Of Greek vase painting .

Characteristics of this style of black-figure vase painting are motifs that were adopted from the Near East and depict griffins , sphinxes or lions . Corinth was the center of this form of ceramic production . This style was also adopted by Attic ceramic production . Further names are Proto-Corinthian or Corinthian style.

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