Transcript AEGEAN ART
AEGEAN ART CYCLADIC • Abundance of marble for figurines • Many figures were found buried in graves and may represent the deceased • Dates are highly controversial Cycladic figurines, c. 2500 BCE Seated Harp Player, c. 2800-2700 BCE MINOAN CIVILIZATION • • • • • • Crete Minos Legend of minotaur Lacked bronze Peak 1600-1450 BC Little known of daily life Minoan Art • 3 periods of – Old Palace (first palaces) – Second palace (rebuilding after earthquakes/fires) – Late Minoan (greatest artistic period) • Palace art does not celebrate the kings • Mud bricks faced with limestone • Focus was inward • Walls were plaster coated and painted with murals • Plumbing • Knossos-labyrinth (house of the double ax-labrys) Palace of Knossos, 2000-1375 BCE Kamares Ware vessels c 20001900 BCE Second Palace Snake Goddess, 1700-1550 BCE Harvesters Vase, c. 1650-1450 BCE Rhyton- ceremonial drinking vessel with a vase usually in the form of a head generally that of an animal, female, or mythological creature Bull’s Head Rhyton, c. 1550-1450 BCE Octopus flask, c. 1500-1450 BCE Late Minoan The Mycenaeans are coming! Toreador Fresco, 1450-1400 BCE, from palace at Knossos La Parisienne, 1450-1400 CE Landscape w/ swallows Akrotiri, Thera, 1650 BCE Young fisherman, Vaphaio cup: repousse Helladic Period • • • • • Bronze age mainland Greece 3000-1000BC Mycenaean Wealthy, powerful kings Discovered by Schliemann Lion Gate, 1300-1250 BCE • Heads were sculpted of bronze or gold • 9 ½ feet tall • Corbel arch relieved the lintel of wall’s weight Funerary Mask c 1600-1500 BC, Beaten Gold Beehive tombs • • • • • Tholoi, singular tholos Cyclopean construction Entrance façade 18’ door faced with bronze plaques Stone surfaces incised with geometric bands=chevrons Treasury of Atreus, 1300-1250 BCE Largest dome in pre Roman world Mycenaean Sculpture Two Women with a Child, ivory, palace at Mycenae, Greece, 1400-1200 BCE Female Head, c. 1300-1250 BCE