Question

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” (10[1])Kapsala style. (10[1])A ship surrounded by spirals appears on this region’s ceramic Chalandriani “frying pan.” Seated harp (10[1])players and folded-arm (10[1])figurines from this region influenced modern artists (10[1])like Constantin (10[1])Brâncuși and Amedeo Modigliani, (10[1])who admired this region’s minimal geometric (-5[1])white-marble (10[1])aesthetic. (-5[1])For 10 points, along with Minoan and Mycenaean (10[2])works, Aegean art (-5[1])includes (-5[1])sculpture from what group of (10[1])islands including (10[1])Paros and Naxos? ■END■ (10[6]0[2])

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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