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Aegean to Golden Age Culture

Aegean to Golden Age Culture. The Foundations of Classical Style. Minoan Art. Fresco Painting on a moist, plaster surface . Minoan Art. Priestess with Snakes 1500 BCE. Mycenaean Architecture. Lion Gate Citadel at Mycenae 1250 BCE. Aegean Sculpture. Sounion Kouros Marble 590 BCE.

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Aegean to Golden Age Culture

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  1. Aegean to Golden Age Culture The Foundations of Classical Style

  2. Minoan Art • Fresco • Painting on a moist, plaster surface

  3. Minoan Art Priestess with Snakes 1500 BCE

  4. Mycenaean Architecture Lion Gate Citadel at Mycenae 1250 BCE

  5. Aegean Sculpture Sounion KourosMarble590 BCE Peplos KoreMarble525 BCE

  6. Music • Instruments • Aulos • Lyre • Kitharode • Terms • Mousikê(music) • Melos(melody) • Harmonia (harmony)

  7. Pythagoras • Monochord • 2:1 • Octave • 3:2 • Fifth • 4:3 • Fourth • The mathematical foundation for all music • Western 12 tone • Japanese 5 tone • Arabic 17 tone

  8. Stasimon Chorus from OrestesEuripides c. 408 BCE • Who was Orestes? • Stasimon • An ode sung by the chorus • Context • The women of Argos are pleading for Orestes’ life. • Emotions • Voices “You wild goddesses who dart across the skies seeking vengeance for murder, we beg you to free Agamemnon’s son from his raging fury… We grieve for this boy. Happiness is brief among mortals. Sorrow and anguish sweep down on it like a swift gust of wind on a sail boat, and it sinks under the tossing seas.”

  9. Stasimon Chorus from OrestesEuripides c. 408 BCE

  10. Classical Style • Order • If music was mathematical, then why not art? • Proportion • Calculated body measurements • Symmetry • Humanism • Focus on human beings • Realism • Faithful to nature • Idealism • Perfection that surpasses nature

  11. Classic Sculpture Kritios Boy Marble 480 BCE Sounion KourosMarble590 BCE

  12. Columns in Chicago

  13. Doric Columns

  14. Ionic Columns

  15. Corinthian Columns

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