Wild Goat Style

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Oinochoe in Wild Goat style, with wild goats, Rhodes, c. Template:Trim

The Wild Goat style (variously capitalized and hyphenated) is a modern term describing vase painting produced in the east of Greece, namely the southern and eastern Ionian islands, between c. Template:Trim. Examples have been found notably at the sites in Chios, at Miletus and in Rhodes. The style owes its name to the predominant motif found on such vases: friezes of goats. The style developed the technique introduced during the Orientalizing period of rendering the heads of figures in outline by applying it to the whole of a figure. Thus where previously an image was a silhouette, the Wild Goat style allowed a greater representation of detail and marked a step forward in the progress towards naturalism.

Goats are not the only creatures depicted on such vases; in common with other Orientalizing pottery, hares, lions, hounds, griffins and sphinxes are also to be found along with favoured in-filling devices like intertwining lines and dots or a checker pattern. The variety of ornamentation makes a careful distinction of a number of phases in the development of the style possible which in turn has been used to date the founding of Greek colonies in the Levant and North Africa.

Gallery

• An oinochoe of the Wild Goat style. Camiros, Rhodes, c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (Louvre)
  An oinochoe of the Wild Goat style. Camiros, Rhodes, c. Template:Trim (Louvre)
• Plate in the Wild Goat style, showing a sphinx with geometric and floral motifs above a zone of petals
  Plate in the Wild Goat style, showing a sphinx with geometric and floral motifs above a zone of petals
• Oinochoe in the Wild Goat style. National Etruscan Museum
  Oinochoe in the Wild Goat style. National Etruscan Museum