This document provides information on and images of prehistoric Aegean art from the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean cultures between 3000 BCE and 1250 BCE. It includes descriptions and images of marble Cycladic statues from around 2500-2300 BCE, reconstructions and surviving structures from the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete from around 1700-1400 BCE, and structures and artifacts from the Mycenaean citadel of Mycenae including the Lion Gate from around 1300-1250 BCE.

1. 09/07 Warm-Up
Compare and Contrast
the two works. Identify
the date and culture that
produced them. Predict
how culture has
influenced an ideal.

2. 09/06 Warm-Up
Compare and
Contrast the two
works aesthetically.
What essential
features are
emphasized, which
are subordinated?

3. Prehistoric Aegean Art

5. Cycladic Art
3000-2200 BCE

7. Statuettes of women
from the Cyclades
ca. 2,500-2,300 B.C.E.
marble
approximately 18 in. high

8. Statuette of a woman
from the Cyclades
ca. 2,500-2,300 B.C.E.
marble
approximately 18 in. high

10. Statuette of Seated Harp Player
from the Cyclades
ca. 2,800-2,700 B.C.E.
marble
11 1/2 in. high

11. Minoan Art
2200-1800 B.C

13. Palace at Knossos
Crete, Greece
ca. 1,700-1,400 B.C.E.

14. Palace at Knossos
(reconstruction drawing)
Crete, Greece
ca. 1,700-1,400 B.C.E.

15. Palace at Knossos
Crete, Greece
ca. 1,700-1,400 B.C.E.

17. Palace at Knossos (plumbing)
Crete, Greece
ca. 1,700-1,400 B.C.E.

18. Minoan woman (La Parisienne)
from the palace at Knossos, Greece
ca. 1,450-1,400 B.C.E.
fresco
approximately 10 in. high

19. Bull-leaping
from the palace at Knossos, Greece
ca. 1,450-1,400 B.C.E.
fresco
32 in. high

21. Flotilla, detail of Miniature Ships Fresco
from Room 5, West House
Akrotiri, Thera, Greece
ca. 1,650 B.C.E.
Fresco
approximately 17 in. high

23. Marine style octopus jar
from Palaikastro, Greece
ca. 1,500 B.C.E.
ceramic
11 in. high

24. Snake Goddess
from the palace at Knossos, Greece
ca. 1,600 B.C.E.
faience
13 1/2 in. high

25. Mycenaean Art

27. Lion Gate
Mycenae, Greece
ca. 1,300-1,250 B.C.E.
limestone
9 ft. 6 in. high

28. Treasury of Atreus (entrance)
Mycenae, Greece
ca. 1,300-1,250 B.C.E.
approximately 43 ft. high

29. Treasury of Atreus
Mycenae, Greece
ca. 1,300-1,250 B.C.E.
approximately 43 ft. high

30. Funerary Mask
from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece
ca. 1,600-1,500 B.C.E.
beaten gold
12 in. high

31. Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt
from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece
ca. 1,600-1,500 B.C.E.
bronze, inlaid with gold, silver and niello
9 in. long

32. Art Directions: Draw one of the following artworks in the middle of your
white page. Color completely. Describe the work creatively (use literary
techniques) as well as quotations about it. Fill the page. Include your
MARCS and proper attribution.

33. Subtractive Sculpture
Due Monday, 9/12/11
1.Draw the placement of the
Cycladic nose on your mold.
2.Begin carving around the nose
to create its thickness.
3.Round out the mold for the face.