In 2024, the Leonard N. Stern Collection loaned the Met over 150 works from this region shown in glass cases with a red backdrop. Evidence for polychromy in this region’s art includes traces of azurite and cinnabar on pieces by the Bastis Master. A “hoard” from this region was the site of hundreds of purposely broken leg figurines. This region’s violin-shaped figurines preceded the “canonical” Kapsala style. A ship surrounded by spirals appears on this region’s ceramic Chalandriani “frying pan.” Seated harp players and folded-arm figurines from this region influenced modern artists like Constantin Brâncuși and Amedeo Modigliani, who admired this region’s minimal geometric white-marble aesthetic. For 10 points, along with Minoan and Mycenaean works, Aegean art includes sculpture from what group of islands including Paros and Naxos? ■END■
ANSWER: Cyclades [or Kyklades; accept Cycladic art; accept Syros; accept Paros or Naxos until each is read; prompt on Greece, Hellas, Elláda, or Ellás; prompt on South Aegean or Eyéo Pélagos until “Aegean” is read;
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