Prehistoric Aegean Art - Works of art near Ancient Greece and Ancient Mediterranean
Cycladic Art - 3,000 - 2,000 B.C.E., Cycladic Isles, Pre-historic society, no writing, the Cyclades are located between greek islands and Anatolia
Statuettes of women - from the Cyclades, ca. 2,500 - 2,300 B.C.E., marble, influenced modern artists, nude from with arms folded across chests, schematic of triangles, pubic triangle, pyramid breasts, triangle face, the overall body is triangular, arms are triangular, placed on the back like the dead, nose profile and face shape influenced artists like Pablo Picasso
Minoan Art - 1,700 - 1,200 B.C.E., Crete, associated with Minotaur
Palace of Knossos - Crete, Greece, ca. 1,700 - 1,400 B.C.E., Home of King Minos, King Minos had the Minotaur, Theseus fought this Minotaur, Labyrinthian, Many chambers and hallways, Libros is a double-headed ax, common motif, rectangular court which was an original palace, Two long quarters, West separates official and ceremonial from storerooms, East has administration separate from workrooms, 3 stories, theatre, water pipes that act as drainage, area for water collection, frescos are natural motifs, not idealized, depict Minoan every-day life and nature, Minoan Columns are wooden columns with cushion-like capitals, red is the shaft of the column, and the capital is black, Heinrich Schliemann found the city of Troy, went looking for these cities from Greek Stories and Fables
Minoan Woman (La Parisienne) - from the palace a Knossos, Greece, ca. 1,450 - 1,400 B.C.E., fresco, elaborate dress, and red lips get her the name of La Parisienne, Ordeally done hairstyle, continue the white theme of women from Egyptians, frontal eye and profile head, Egyptians used Fresco Secco while Minoans used Buon Fresco
Bull Leaping - From the palace at Knossos, Greece, ca. 1,450 - 1,400 B.C.E., fresco, geometric border or frame is most likely Minoan, young men and women would flip over the head of the bull as a version of acrobatics, very stylized, round human forms, representational
Dolphin Fresco - from the palace at Knossos, Greece, ca. 1,450 - 1,400 B.C.E., fresco, well preserved, maritime scenes due to the fact that Minoa was an island, more merchants that warlike people, bulbous images are most likely Minoan, flat but animated DOlhpins which provide the illusion of movement, fish in motion
Snake Goddess - from the palace at Knossos, Greece, ca. 1,600 B.C.E., faience, made out of porcelain (faience), could actually be the mortal version of Snake Goddess of just fertility figure, exposed breasts which are typical of Minoan dresses
Mycenaean Art - 1,700 - 1,200 B.C.E., Mycenae, Greece, Minoans are peaceful while the Mycenaeans are warlike peoples, begin in mainland Greece and eventually take over Crete, this makes them more susceptible to raids by enemies
Tyrins Citadel - Tyrins, Greece, ca. 1,400 - 1,300 B.C.E., Greeks attributed this citadel o the cyclops, corbeled archway, Cyclopian Masonry - Rough Cut Stones that are stacked, Egyptians would have had finer dressed stones, stones are extremely rough and lots of empty space between stones, each stone is several tons each, fill cracks in rock with clay or smaller stones, Megaron is the throne room of the King,
Lion Gate - Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1,300 - 1,250 B.C.E., limestone, post - lintel construction, corbeled masonry, relieving triangle, decorative relief that was put in a space that could have been left empty, made of megaliths and limestone slabs, meant to be protective, the only way to get on top of the hill, narrows as you go through, bottleneck, makes it harder to invade the citadel,
Treasury of Atreus (entrance) - Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1,300 - 1,350 B.C.E., Tholos tomb, beehive-shaped tomb, post and lintel, corbeled archway, no stone in relieving triangle, interior space referee to as Tholos, burial chamber, corbeled courses, no support in the interior, vaulted space
Funerary Mask - Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1,600 - 1,500 B.C.E, beaten gold, believed to be Agamemnon, repousse is where you have s sheet of metal, and you push the image through the metal, and the image is popping through the pins creating a projection on the metal, first attempt to create a life-sized version of a face, eyes have shells on top, funerary technique, putting coins on eyes to pay the person who takes them across the river to the underworld
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