Greek art (or, more accurately, art in Greece) began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to
Western classical art in the subsequent
Geometric,
Archaic and
Classical periods (with further developments during the
Hellenistic Period). It absorbed influences of Eastern civilizations, of Roman art and its patrons, and the new religion of
Orthodox Christianity in the
Byzantine era and absorbed
Italian and
European ideas during the period of
Romanticism (with the invigoration of the
Greek Revolution), right up until the
Modernist and
Postmodernist. Greek art is mainly five forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery and jewelry making.