Aegean Art Right Two Cycladic female figures c

Aegean Art

Right: Two Cycladic female figures, c. 2500 -2000 BCE, marble Below: Male lyre player (Ketos), c. 2700 -2500 BCE, marble

Figurine of a woman (Syros, Cyclades), c. 2500 -2300 BCE, marble Cycladic/ neolithic statues/ schematic figures

Palace of Knossos (Crete), c. 1700 -1400 BCE Arthur Evans/ King Minos and Pasiphae/ Theseus and the Minotaur/Ariadne and the island of Naxos

central court/ unfortified

The Queen’s Apartment at Knossos

La Parisienne, a Minoan woman or goddess from the palace at Knossos (Crete), c. 14501400 BCE, fresco

Toreador Fresco from the palace at Knossos (Crete), c. 1450 -1400 BCE, fresco

bull leaping/ elongation/ depiction of women

Right: Young fisherman with his catch (Akrotiri, Thera) c. 1650 BCE, fresco Below: Spring Fresco (Akrotiri, Thera), c. 1650 BCE, fresco

Kamares Ware jars (Phaistos, Crete) c. 18001700 BCE love of nature and the sea/ zoomorphic motifs/ Barbotine decoration/ polychromatic

Marine style octopus jar (Palaikastro, Crete), c. 1500 BCE

Harvesters Vase from Hagia Triada (Crete), c. 1500 BCE, steatite rhyton/ winnowing fans/ sistrum/ static repetition shunned/ interest in muscular and skeletal structures

Snake Goddess from the palace at Knossos (Crete), c. 1600 BCE, faience/ exposure of breasts/ use of snakes

Lion Gate from Mycenae (Greece) c. 1300 -1250 BCE, limestone

Cyclopean structures/ megaron/ relieving triangle/ influence of the Hittites

Aerial view of Mycenae

Corbeled gallery in the walls of the citadel at Tiryns (Greece), c. 1400 -1200 BCE

Drawing of the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, 1300 -1250 BCE tholos (beehive tomb)/ dromos/ corbelling/ Treasury of Atreus

Right: Tholos of the Treasury of Atreus (Mycenae), c. 1300 -1250 BCE Below: Dromos to the Treasury of Atreus

Funerary mask from Grave Circle A (Mycenae), c. 1600 -1500 BCE, beaten gold Henrich Schliemann/ repousse/ life-size proportions

Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt, from Grave Circle A (Mycenae), c. 16001500 BCE, bronze, inlaid with gold, silver, and niello

Head of a sphinx (? ) (Mycenae), c. 1300 -1250 BCE, painted plaster

Vaphio Cups (Vaphio), c. 1500 BCE, gold evidence of Mycenaean and Minoan trade and contact

Warrior Vase (Mycenae), c. 1200 BCE krater

compared to the Harvesters Vase

same pattern repeated without variety and detail

Aegean Art