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AEGEAN ART

AEGEAN ART. CYCLADIC. Remains left after the volcano of Thera erupted leaving only a ridge Palace complexes functioned as political, religious and economic hubs Religion was epiphanic Abundance of marble for figurines. MINOAN CIVILIZATION. Crete Minos Legend of minotaur Lacked bronze

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AEGEAN ART

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  1. AEGEAN ART

  2. CYCLADIC • Remains left after the volcano of Thera erupted leaving only a ridge • Palace complexes functioned as political, religious and economic hubs • Religion was epiphanic • Abundance of marble for figurines

  3. MINOAN CIVILIZATION • Crete • Minos • Legend of minotaur • Lacked bronze • Peak 1600-1450 BC • Little known of daily life

  4. 3 periods of Minoan Art • Old Palace • Second palace • Late Minoan • 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)

  5. Minoan ArchitecturePalace of Knossos

  6. Minoan PaintingToreador Fresco, from palace at Knossos

  7. La Parisienne

  8. Landscape w/ swallowsAkrotiri, Thera

  9. Young fisherman

  10. Minoan SculptureSnake Goddess

  11. Minoan Pottery/SculptureHarvesters Vase, from Hagia Triada

  12. Kamares Ware vessels

  13. Rhyton

  14. Rhyton bull cup

  15. Vaphaio cup: repousse

  16. Helladic Period • Bronze age mainland Greece • 3000-1000BC • Mycenaean • Wealthy, powerful kings • Discovered by Schliemann

  17. Lioness Gate • Heads were sculpted of bronze or gold • 9 ½ feet tall • Corbel arch relieved the lintel of wall’s weight

  18. Beehive tombs • Tholoi, singular tholos • Cyclopean construction • Entrance façade • 18’ door faced with bronze plaques • Stone surfaces incised with geometric bands=chevrons

  19. Mycenaean Sculpture Two Women with a Child, ivory, palace at Mycenae, Greece, 1400-1200 BCE

  20. Classical Greece

  21. Greece • Heroic Age follows the Dark Age • 8th century BC • Polis develops-by 6th c Athens is dominant • Human forms return to art • Polytheistic • Oracles • Sanctuaries

  22. Periods of art • Geometric (900-700 BCE) • Orientalizing (700-600 BCE) • Archaic (600-480 BCE) • Early or Transitional classical (480-450 BCE) • High or 5th Century Classical (450-400 BCE) • Late or 4th Century Classical (400-320 BCE) • Hellenistic (means Greek-like)

  23. Greek Pottery • Proto-Geometric 1050-900 BCE • Geometric 900-700 BCE • Orientalzing 700-625 BCE • Archaic (Black Figure) 620-480 BCE • Classical (Red Figure) 533-500 BCE • Late Classical (White Figure phiale) 440-400 BCE

  24. Proto-Geometric 1050-900 BCE

  25. Proto-Geometric, Centaur, Terracotta, late 10th Cen BCE

  26. Geometric 900-700 BCE • Periods classified by pottery • Earliest is Dipylon Vase-narrative of funerary rituals for an important person • Abstract figures

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