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The Aegean document summarizes three early civilizations - the Cycladic Civilization in the Cyclades islands from around 3000-1100 BCE, characterized by female and male marble figurines. It also discusses the Minoan Civilization on Crete from around 3000-1100 BCE, best known for the elaborate Palace of Knossos. Frescoes and artifacts depicting bull leaping and a snake goddess were found at Knossos. Finally, it outlines the Mycenaean Civilization on the Greek mainland from around 1600-1100 BCE, including a frescoed citadel at Mycenae and a famous Mask of Agamemnon.
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Used white-ground technique.
ARCHITECTURE
Doric and Ionic Columns remained during classical period.
Doric is described as more formal.
Ionic is more decorative and relaxed.
SCULPTURE
Anatomy became more accurate.
Statues became more realistic (human).
Bronze became the main medium.
Contrapposto was introduced.
FAMOUS SCULPTORS
MYRON Discus Thrower
Greatest sculptor of his time.
First to achieve life-like representation in figurative sculpture.
Gods, heroes and Athletes.
POLYKLEITOS Doryphorus
Sometimes called Elder.
Greatest sculptors of Classical Antiquity.
Known for his bronze sculptures.
CALLIMACHUS Muses
Poet, Critic and Scholar at the Library of Alexandria=largest library in ancient world.
Muses the nine goddesses of art.
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
Secular patrons influence sculpture and mosaic.
Wide range of pottery was produced.
But not given much importance.
SCULPTURE
CHARACTERISTICS
Naturalism was continually used.
Animals and ordinary people were accepted as major subject.
Although production of sculptures was increased, workmanship and creativity greatly suffered.
Greater expression characterized the sculptures of this period.
Colossus of Rhodes
The Three Graces
Borghese Gladiator
Venus De Milo
ARCHITECTURE
Temple of immense size
Theaters of similarly colossal
Storied colonel (stoa)
Public monument
Monumental tomb (mausoleum)
Council building (bouleuterion)
Processional gateway (propylon)
Stadium
Public square
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People, boats, and animals, detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting from tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, ca. 3500–3200 BCE. Paint on plaster, entire painting 16’ 4” X 3’ 7 3/8”. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Predynastic, Early Dynasties, and the Old Kingdom
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Stylistic Conventions of Egyptian Art
Palette of Narmer: a blueprint for a formula for figure representation and other conventions seen in Egyptian art for nearly 3000 years.
Palette of King Narmer (left, back; right, front), from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic, ca. 3000–2920 BCE. Slate, 2’ 1” high. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Section (top), plan (center),and restored view (bottom) of typical Egyptian mastaba tombs.
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IMHOTEP, Stepped Pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, Third Dynasty, ca. 2630–2611 BCE.
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Restored view (top) and plan (bottom) of the mortuary precinct of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, Third Dynasty, ca. 2630–2611 BCE.
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Columnar entrance corridor to the mortuary precinct of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, Third Dynasty, ca. 2630–2611 BCE.
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Detail of the facade of the north palace of the mortuary precinct of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, Third Dynasty, ca. 2630–2611 BCE.
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Aerial view of the Fourth Dynasty pyramids (looking north), Gizeh, Egypt. From bottom: Pyramids of Menkaure, ca. 2490–2472 BCE; Khafre, ca. 2520–2494 BCE; and Khufu, ca. 2551–2528 BCE.
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Section of the Pyramid of Khufu, Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2551–2528 BCE.
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Model of the pyramid complex, Gizeh, Egypt. Harvard University Semitic Museum, Cambridge. 1) Pyramid of Menkaure, 2) Pyramid of Khafre, 3) mortuary temple of Khafre, 4) causeway, 5) Great Sphinx, 6) valley temple of Khafre, 7) Pyramid of Khufu, 8) pyramids of the royal family and mastabas of nobles.
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Khafre enthroned, from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2520–2494 BCE. Diorite, 5’ 6” high. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Great Sphinx (with Pyramid of Khafre in the background at left), Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2520–2494 BCE. Sandstone, 65’ X 240’.
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Menkaure and Khamerernebty(?), from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2490–2472 BCE. Graywacke, 4’ 6 1/2” high. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Seated scribe, from Saqqara, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2500 BCE. Painted limestone, 1’ 9” high. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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- The Minoan civilization flourished on the island of Crete from around 2700 BC to 1100 BC. It was named after King Minos, a son of Zeus and Europa, according to Greek mythology.
- The Minoans built large palace complexes, the most famous being the Palace of Knossos, which had advanced plumbing and drainage systems. Wall paintings found depict ceremonial practices and everyday life.
- The Minoans seem to have worshipped female deities and the bull was an important religious symbol. They wrote using two syllabic scripts called Linear A and Linear B, though Linear A remains undeciphered.
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Marine-style
octopus flask,
ca. 1500 BCE
Harvesters Vase, from Hagia Triada,
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View from sea of Thera (Santorini), a volcanic island north of Crete
View toward caldera of volcano and emerging island of hardened lava
Street with houses, Akrotiri (pre-1628 BCE)
Collapsed staircase
Inside of house, Akrotiri
Brazier, above, and storage jar, right.
From Akrotiri, covered by eruption of
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Plaster cast of bed frame (and some cordage), from house at Akrotiri
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before 1628 BCE
From Akrotiri (Thera),
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From Akrotiri (Thera): Ship flotilla fresco, showing overseas
expedition (before 1628 BCE)
View of citadel of Mycenae
Plan, citadel of Mycenae: 1) entrance (Lion Gate) 2) Grave Circle A 3) Megaron
4) Redoubt with sally port and hidden spring Ca. 1300 BCE
H. Schliemann and
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Mycenae
Lion Gate, Mycenae, and projecting bastion at right
Entrance to Megaron of palace at Mycenae
View to south over existing remains of Megaron (hearth is under tarp) to plain of Argos
Reconstruction of Megaron of Pylos (Palace of Nestor)
View of Grave Circle A at Mycenae, enclosed Shaft Graves, ca. 1600 BCE
Reconstructed drawing of Grave Circle A, with retaining wall and stelai
From Shaft Graves: Mask of “Agamemnon,” ca. 1600 BCE
From Shaft Graves: funerary sheets of gold for a child’s body
Lion Rhyton,
from Shaft Graves,
Mycenae
Inlaid daggers,
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Mycenae. Now in
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Bronze blade with lion hunt in a Minoan style, inlaid gold, silver, and
electrum, using niello technique (niello is the black background,
made of copper, lead, sulphur, borax).
Tholos tomb, called the “Treasury of Atreus,” ca. 1300 BCE
Detail, showing relieving triangle
Reconstructed façade
of Treasury of Atreus
Section, tholos tomb
Half-column, partly
restored, from
Treasury of Atreus,
now in Athens
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Inner corbelled dome of “Treasury of Atreus”
Warrior Vase (krater, for mixing wine), from Mycenae, ca. 1200 BCE
Suit of Mycenaean armor, with
boars’-tusk helmet, from tholos at Dendra,
now in Nafplion Museum. Ca. 1300 BCE
Imports founds at Mycenae:
jewelry and vessels from Egypt;
below, Canaanite transport
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Phaistos Disk, Linear A
Linear B tablets,
National Museum,
Athens
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