Orientalizing period

The Orientalizing period or Orientalizing revolution is an art historical period that began during the later part of the 8th century BC, when art of the and the Ancient Near East heavily influenced nearby Mediterranean cultures, most notably Archaic Greece. The main sources were Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria, and Assyria. With the spread of Phoenician civilization by Carthage and Greek colonisation into the , these artistic trends also influenced the Etruscans and early Ancient Romans in the Italian Peninsula.