Details Title: Aegean Art - Stokstad Ch. 4 Description: For Eubanks's GT Class - Lufkin Total Flash Cards: 23 Created: 10/11/2009 09:53:46		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Art History Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term {image:113174|center} Definition Two figures of women c. 2500 - 2200 BCE Cycladic   *Marble from Naxos and Paros *Found on graves *Simple violin-like shapes *Simple contours *Position suggests sleep *Minimal anatomical detail *Originally painted facial features Term {image:113175|center} Definition Seated Harp Player c. 2800 - 2700 BCE Cycladic   *Fully developed sculpture in the round *Reduced to geometric essentials with careful attention to elements that best characterize musician *Maybe votive figure Term {image:113176|center} Definition Palace Complex Knossos c. 2000 - 1375 BCE Minoan   *Dressed stone walls *Multistoried *Indoor plumbing *Columns/other interior elments made of wood *Store rooms   Term {image:113177|center} Definition Kamares ware jug c. 2000 - 1900 BCE Minoan   *Extremely thin walls *BEaked pouring spout *Graceful, stylized painted decorations *Decorations follow curves of the jug Term {image:113178|center} Definition Pendant of Gold Bees c. 1700 - 1550 BCE Minoan   *Borrowed from Near East (Puabi's Headdress) *Simple geometric patterns and shapes *Repousse *Niello *Gliding *Gramulation Term {image:113179|center} Definition Woman or Goddess with Snakes c. 1700 - 1550 BCe Minoan   *Egyptian/Near Eastern frontality *Minoan Flounced dress *bare chest indicative of fertility goddess *May be assosicated with water, regeneration power, or protection of the home *Feline on head Term {image:113180|center} Definition Harvester Vase c. 1650 - 1450 BCE Minoan   *Rhyton *Usually found in fragments, indicative of ritual breaking *May have been covered in gold leaf *27 men *Bursting with energy *Unprecedented facial xpression *Together, not single file *First interest in showing muscles/skeletons Term {image:113181|center} Definition Bull's head ryhton c. 1550 - 1450 BCE Minoan   *Not a god *Decorative detailing Term {image:113182|center} Definition Octopus Flask c. 1500 - 1450 BCE Minoan   *Marine style *Tentacles embrace shape and emphasize volume *Reversed scheme (dark shape on light background) Term {image:113183|center} Definition Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers c. 1700 - 1450 BCE Minoan   *Fresco *Stylization turns natural forms into decorative patterns *Saffron valuable for use as dye, food flavoring, and medicine Term {image:113185|center} Definition Landscape (Spring Fresco) c. 1630 - 1500 BCE Minoan   *Freshness and vitality of Aegean world *Captures landscape essence *Curving lines celebrate rythms of spring   Term {image:113186|center} Definition Bull Leaping c. 1550 - 1450 BCe Minoan   *Maybe an initiation or fertility ritual *Pinched waist typical of Minoan *Pale skin, female; red skin, male   Term {image:113187|center} Definition Vapheio Cup c. 1650 - 1450 BCE Minoan   *Repousse *Muscularity despite small size   Term {image:113188|center} Definition Citadel Mycenae c. 1600 -1200 BCE     Term {image:113190|center} Definition Lion Gate Mycenae c. 1250 BCE Mycenaen   *Relieving triangle *Corbeled arch *Lion stone slab carved in high relief   Term {image:113191|center} Definition Mask of Agamemnon c. 1600 - 1550 BCE Mycenaean   *Repousse *Handlebar mustache/large ears Term {image:113193|center} Definition Entrance to Tholos So-called Treasury of Atreus c. 1300 - 1200 BCE Mycenaean   *Beehive tomb *Cyclopean construction   Term {image:113194|center} Definition Plan of Citadel at Tiryns c. 1600 -1200 BCE Mycenaean   *Left attackers with exposed right side *Outer walls 20ft think *Corbelled vaulted casemates in walls Term {image:113195|center} Definition Corbel-vaulted Casemate Inside ring wall at Tiryns c. 1365 BCE Mycenaean   *20 ft think Term {image:113196|center} Definition Megaron in the palace at Pylos c. 1300 - 1200 BCE   *4 columnss around a central hearth *Roof section above the hearth open/raised *Every inch painted Term {image:113197|center} Definition Two Women with a Child c. 1400 -1200 BCE Mycenaean   *Familial theme *Carefully observed natural form *Sculture in the round *Minoan flounced skirt *Product of Minoan/Mycenaean artistic exchange   Term {image:113198|center} Definition Warrior Vase c. 1300 - 1100 BCE Mycenaean   *Marching rythym Term {image:113199|center} Definition Dagger blade with lion hunt c. 1550 - 1500 BCE Mycenaean   *Hunters are Minoan in style *Subject borrowed from Near East