Aegean artpost

Aegean Art c. 3000 – 1100 BCE

Cycladic Art
Folded Arms
Slight & Virginal
Delicate proportions
Subtle contours
Most Likely Painted
c. 2500 – 1100 BCE

In the round sculpture
Tubular
Basic Geometric Forms
Lyre Player c. 2000 BCE

Painting
Murals done in Fresco
Large gaps filled in by modern restorers
Extremely curvilinear and lyrical line
Vibrant colors, smooth lines and sense of nature

c. 1500 BCE
c. 1800 BCE
Note 2nd millenium BCE the intro of the potter’s wheel
Kamares Ware - Tossed in dump sites

Minoans
Little Concern for defense or religion (no fortifications or temples)
Utilized Metals
System of writing
Urban, mercantile civilization
Emerging in Neolithic Age

Palace of Knossos, Crete
Rambling and not pre-planned
Labyrinth
Columns larger at top, taper to bottom
Bulbous round tops of columns
Megaron (chamber composed of straight angled intersecting walls and a door opening to the outer space)
Low ceilings, intimate rooms
Terraces and open galleries

Painting
Murals done in Fresco
Large gaps filled in by modern restorers
Extremely curvilinear and lyrical line
Vibrant colors, smooth lines and sense of nature

Toreador Fresco
Red-brown color of men
Yellow of women
Curving lines
Religious ritual?: jumping over the bull
Bull appears decorative and non-threatening
Thin waists
Inspired by Egyptian art

Rhyton Bull from Knossos (c. 1550 – 1500 BCE)
Incised lines
Inlaid shell and rock crystal in eyes

Snake Goddess
Frontal
Symmetrical
Quilted skirt, no visible legs
Pronounced breasts
Astonished expression
Thin waist

Mycenaean Art
Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece
Propylon (columned gateway)
Heads of animals made of separate pieces of stone or metal, don’t survive
May have been sphinxes, not lions
Huge rocks grooved in place without mortar
Outer protected entrance of a Mycenaean citadel
C. 1250 BCE

Mycenaean Art
Treasury of Atreus, Mycenaean
Dome of corbeled stones
Unknown function (tomb?)
Largest vaulted interior space built up to at that time, and until the Roman Pantheon
Each stone gently curved to create a circular interior
C. 1250 BCE

Funerary Mask
Repoussé
Death mask
Curly-cue like ears
Life-like yet primitive quality
Beard, moustache and eyebrows rendered in short thick strokes
Claimed as the Mask of Agemmemnon by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876

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Aegean artpost

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