Chapter 4 – Prehistoric Aegean
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Chapter 4 – Prehistoric Aegean
Minoan
• Known culture to have large palaces
• Principal palaces sites on Crete are @Knossos, Phaisotos, Kato & Mallia
• Religion part of Minoan Life
• Minotaur – Creature half bull half man = Thesus defeated Minotaur
• labryinth created by King Minos
Cycladic Art
• 2500 BCE• Marble
Male Lyre Player – 2700 BCE
• Playing for deceased in the afterlife
• Geometric shapes
• @ graves
Minoan -Architecture
• Largest Palace @ Knossos• King Minos- Minotaur• Place has several rooms,
Thick walls, drainage, • Columns• Terracotta piping• Greek Doric Order ( of
columns)
Minoan PaintingsBull Leaping from the Palace of Knossos -
1450 -1400 BCE Fresco• Bull- sweeping lines• Human figures are stylized • Minoan Pinched waists• Full profile eye
Miniature Ships Fresco-Akotiri, Thera- 1650 BCE Fresco
• Akrotiri frescos decorated
• the walls of houses
• Dolphins
• Movement
Spring Fresco – 1650 BCE Cyclades –Fresco
Island/Breeze
• Nature• Realism?
Kamares ware Jar – Crete – 1800BCE
• Crete potters fashioned sophisticated shapes
• Creamy white and reddish brown
• Fishnet
Marine Style Jar – 1500BCE
• Tentacles of the octopus reach out over the curving surface
Harvesters Vase – Crete, Greece 1500 BCE
• Crowd singing, riot • Old age profile • Scenes of harvesting
were common also in Egyptian art
Snake Goddess – Knossos, Greece 1600 BCE
• Fertility symbol
• Reminiscent of Egyptian and Near East
• Feline on her head
Young god from Palaikastro ( Crete) 1500-1475 BCE
Ivory, Gold, rock crystal • Costly cult image• Miniature details of
veins• Could be a god rather
than a mortal• Black from fire
Mycenaean Art – Citadel at Tiryns, Greece 1400-1200BCE
• “Citadels Giants Built”• Homer knew of Tiryns• Cyclopean masonry• Heavy walls – 20ft of
thickness• Long Gallery
Corbelled vault
Corbeled Gallery
Kings Hall
• http://www.grisel.net/tiryns.htm
Lions Gate –1300-1250BCE Greece
Monstrous guardian figures at entrance to palace tombs and sacred places
Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BCE
Treasury of Atreus, 1300-1250
Funerary Mask from Grave Circle ABeaten Gold, 1600-1500BCE
Inlaid dagger blade with Lion Hunt -1600-1500 Bce
Female Head from Mycenae, Greece 1300-1250 BCE Painted Plaster
• Facial Paint tattoos of figures of women
• Cult statue
Warrior Vase – 1200 BCE