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Title: Cyclades Female Figure
Cycladic period 2600 B.C.
Major influence on 20th century modern art.
Made of marble
Nude, nose only facial feature, abstract/stylized
Buried with wealthy women. |
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Title: Seated Harpist
Cycladic period 2500 B.C.
Made of marble
Buried with wealthy for entertainment in afterlife
Duck bill on harp connects animal/human worlds |
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Title: Palace at Knossos
Minoan - 1400 B.C.
Excavated by Arthur Evans |
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Title: Toreador Fresco
Minoan - 1400 B.C.
Figures highly stylized |
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Title: Spring Fresco
Minoan - 1650 B.C.
Oldest known landscape painting
Artwork preserved from being buried in ash from the eruption of a volcano (Santorini) |
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Title: Octopus Vase
Minoan - 1500 B.C.
Medium tied to function |
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Title: Snake Goddess
Minoan - 1800-1700 B.C. |
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Title: Corbeled Arch
Mycenaean - 1400-1200 B.C.
Found in Tiryns
Defensive Structure
No mortar used
Technique used - Cantilever |
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Title: Lion Gate
Mycenaean - 1300-1250 B.C.
Made of limestone, no mortar
Cyclopean masonry - brickwork with giant stones
Contains post&lintel and corbeled arch techniques
Defensive Structure |
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Title: Treasury of Atreus
Mycenaean - 1300 B.C.
Tholos - tomb built into a hillside or mound
Misnamed - not an actual treasury
Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann |
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Title: Funerary Mask
Mycenaean - 1600-1500 B.C.
Made out of gold
Repousse - French term for hammered gold |
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Title: Dipylon Funerary Krater
Geometric - 740 B.C.
First time we see narrative art
Krater - large bowl
Registers - bands around the Krater
Stylized human and horse figures |
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Title: Corinthian Amphora
Orientalizing - 625-600 B.C.
Horror Vacui - fear, dislike, or hatred of empty space
Multiple registers contain animals that Greeks believed were from the east |
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Title: New York Kouros
Archaic - 600 B.C.
Kouros - nude male statue
Burial Marker
Rigid pose, smile, and braided hair = Archaic features
"in the round" sculpture
Generic male figures represents masculinity |
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