AP Art History Unit Sheet #4 ‐ Chapter 4: Aegean Art Ms. Cook Works of Art Cycladic: Name 4‐2 & 4‐3: Figurine of a woman, Male harp player Minoan: 4‐4 to 4‐6: Palace of Knossos 4‐8: Bull‐leaping, from the palace, Knossos
4‐9: Spring Fresco, Akrotiri 4‐10 & 4.11: Kamares Pottery/Octopus vase 4‐12: Snake Goddess 4‐14: Harvester Vase 4‐16: Corbel‐vaulted galley, Tiryns
4‐19: Lion Gate 4‐20: Treasury of Atreus 4‐22: Funerary mask 4‐26: Warrior Vase Mycenaean: Type of Art Materials/technique Sculpture
Architecture
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Painting
marble stone/post and lintel
fresco fresco Sculpture
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Sculpture
Architecture
Architecture
Architecture
Sculpture
Sculpture
ceramic ceramic/faience
steatite corbel‐vault megalithic stones
corbelling/stone
gold repoussé ceramic bowl
Aegean Periods of Art: location: architecture: date: Cycladic Cycladic Islands various burial mounds c. 2500BCE Minoan Island of Crete Palace of Knossos c. 1500BCE Mycenaean mainland Greece Citadel at Mycenae c. 1200BCE Context: ‐
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Trading: earlier Minoan culture (Crete) is open, non‐military, palace architecture, trading olive oil, wine Disaster: around 1450 (maybe earlier) earthquake (and tsunami) weaken Minoan cities Mercenaries: Mycenae mercenaries made stops in Crete to and from Egypt to help quell the Hyskos Vocabulary – Technique Painting: fresco buon ‐ painting on wet plaster profile view Pottery: pattern decoration terms: motifs (spirals & pin‐wheel) ‐negative/positive shape ‐organic/geometric design Undulating rhythm/abstract curvilinear design Sculpture: repousse chryselephantine figurine faience Architecture: Minoan: labyrinthine (labyrinth‐like) inverted tapered column abucus Mycenaean: cyclopean masonry citadel courses (of stone) Tholos tomb/ beehive tomb corbelling dromos megaron Ideas/Concepts 1.
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Know the basic differences between the cultures of Crete (Minoan) and mainland Greece Mycenaean Contrast Minoan and Mycenaean architecture (i.e. Palace of Knossos and the Citadel of Mycenaea.) Why did the Mycenaean culture appropriate Minoan artifacts/images? What is the role of women in religion/as goddess in Minoan culture? How is abstraction/stylization used in Cycladic art and Karmares pottery? What accounts for the difference in appearance (and content) of Minoan art (esp. frescos) in contrast to other ancient cultures (esp. the Egyptians)?