AP Art History Unit Sheet #4 ‐ Chapter 4: Aegean Art Ms. Cook Works of Art Name Type of Art Materials/technique Cycladic: 4‐2 & 4‐3: Figurine of a woman, Male harp player Sculpture marble Minoan: 4‐4 to 4‐6: Palace of Knossos Architecture stone/post and lintel 4‐8: Bull‐leaping, from the palace, Knossos Painting fresco 4‐9: Spring Fresco, Akrotiri Painting fresco 4‐10 & 4.11: Kamares Pottery/Octopus vase Sculpture ceramic 4‐12: Snake Goddess Sculpture ceramic/faience 4‐14: Harvester Vase Sculpture steatite Mycenaean: 4‐16: Corbel‐vaulted galley, Tiryns Architecture corbel‐vault 4‐19: Lion Gate Architecture megalithic stones 4‐20: Treasury of Atreus Architecture corbelling/stone 4‐22: Funerary mask Sculpture gold repoussé 4‐26: Warrior Vase Sculpture ceramic bowl Aegean Periods of Art: location: architecture: date: Cycladic Cycladic Islands various burial mounds c. 2500BCE Minoan Island of Crete Palace of Knossos c. 1500BCE Mycenaean mainland Greece Citadel at Mycenae c. 1200BCE Context: ‐ Trading: earlier Minoan culture (Crete) is open, non‐military, palace architecture, trading olive oil, wine ‐ Disaster: around 1450 (maybe earlier) earthquake (and tsunami) weaken Minoan cities ‐ Mercenaries: Mycenae mercenaries made stops in Crete to and from Egypt to help quell the Hyskos Vocabulary – Technique Painting: fresco buon ‐ painting on wet plaster profile view Pottery: pattern decoration terms: motifs (spirals & pin‐wheel) ‐negative/positive shape ‐organic/geometric design Undulating rhythm/abstract curvilinear design Sculpture: repousse chryselephantine figurine faience Architecture: Minoan: labyrinthine (labyrinth‐like) inverted tapered column abucus Mycenaean: cyclopean masonry citadel courses (of stone) Tholos tomb/ beehive tomb corbelling dromos megaron Ideas/Concepts 1. Know the basic differences between the cultures of Crete (Minoan) and mainland Greece Mycenaean 2. Contrast Minoan and Mycenaean architecture (i.e. Palace of Knossos and the Citadel of Mycenaea.) 3. Why did the Mycenaean culture appropriate Minoan artifacts/images? 4. What is the role of women in religion/as goddess in Minoan culture? 5. How is abstraction/stylization used in Cycladic art and Karmares pottery? 6. What accounts for the difference in appearance (and content) of Minoan art (esp. frescos) in contrast to other ancient cultures (esp. the Egyptians)? .