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| Title: Male lyre player Artist/sculptor: Unknown Date: 2700-2500BC Period: Cycladic Technique: Marble Location: National Archaeological Museum, Athens Significance: Male figures also appear in the Cycladic repertoire. The most elaborate of these take the form of seated musicians. Might have been playing for the deceased in the afterlife. Elegant shape of a prized posession, a duckbilled harp. Book ID: 4-2 |
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| Title: Aerial view and plan of the palace at Knossos Artist/sculptor: Unknown Date: 1700-1400BC Period: Minoan Technique: ? Location: Knossos, Greece Significance: By contrast, the beginning of the Middle Minoan period on Crete is marked by the construction of large palaces. Following their destruction, probably in an earthquake around 1700 BCE, the palaces were rebuilt as, multi-functional complexes with many rooms serving a variety of functions, grouped around a large, rectangular courtyard. The principal palace sites on Crete are at Knossos… The Minotaur's labyrinth: The largest of the palaces, at Knossos, was the legendary home of King Minos. Book ID: 4-3 &4-4 |
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| Title: Bull-leaping Artist/sculptor: Unknown Date: 1450-1400BC Period: Minoan Technique: Fresco Location: Palace at Knossos Significance: The angularity seen in Egyptian wall paintings is modified by the curving Minoan line that suggests the elasticity of the living and moving being. Young women (fair skin) and youth (dark skin). Highly stylized shapes pinched waists. Book ID: 4-7 |
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| Title: Harvester Vase Artist/sculptor: Unknown Date: 1500BC Period: Minoan Technique: Steatite Location: Hagia Triada (Crete), Greece Significance: Finest example of Minoan relief sculpture. Individually characterized figures. One of the first instances in history in which a sculptor shows interest in the underlying muscular and skeletal structure of the body. Sculptor accurately recorded the tension and relaxation of the facial muscles. Book ID: 4-13 |
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| Title: Snake Goddess Artist/sculptor: Unknown Date: 1600 BC Period: Minoan Technique: Faience (glazed earthenware) Location: Archaeological Museum Herakleion Significance: What remains of minoan sculpture. May represent a moral attendant or fertility image. Skirt os distinctly minoan. Book ID: 4-14 |
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| Title: Artist/sculptor: Unknown Date: 1400-1200 BC Period: Mycenaean Technique: stone Location: Tyrins, Greece Significance The Mycenaeans built citadels on hilltops heavily fortified with massive stone walls. Outside the walls of Mycenae, large tholos chambers built of stone and covered by earthen mounds served as ceremonial tombs for the wealthy.
Homer knew the citadel of Tiryns, located about ten miles from Mycenae, as Tiryns of the Great Walls. Book ID: 4- |
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