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oriˈentalizing, vbl. n. and ppl. a. [f. orientalize v. + -ing1.] spec. designating a style of Greek art, or the period to which it is dated (c 750–c 650 b.c.), in which influences from the art of the Near East are discernible.
1847Grote Greece ii. xxxvii. IV. 534 The orientalising tendency—then beginning to spread over the Grecian and Roman world. 1879Conder Tentwork Pal. II. 89 A very marked improvement..in what might be called the orientalising of the Bible. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 574/2 From Ionia the style of vase-painting which,..may best be termed the ‘orientalizing’, spread to Greece proper. 1939J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete vi. 335 Courby, in his study of such vases, divides them into three groups... Orientalizing, which he dates from 750 to 650. Ibid. 336 In the Orientalizing Period a number of important works of art in bronze was produced in Crete. 1948[see black-figure s.v. black a. 19]. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments ii. 74 Late Geometric and Early Orientalizing graves. 1960T. Burton-Brown Early Mediterranean Migrations iii. 74 There was a group which..knew the same kinds of procedure in architecture and sculpture, as the Greeks used from the Orientalizing Period. 1973P. Green Conc. Hist. Anc. Greece 55 (caption) The domestication of mythical and other beasts was typical of ‘Orientalizing’ art. |