AHI 1A lec 10 - Lecture notes 10 PDF

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

AHI 1A lec 10 - Mycenaean Art 1600-1100 BCE - founded by Heinrich Schliemann - Citadel at Mycenae - Agamemnon fighting Trojan War

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Lion's Gate, Mycenae, Greece, 1300-1250 BCE walls are tall, thick, any attacks could be seen and prepared for planned with defense in mind cyclopean masonry- walls made of large, irregular stone roughly placed citadel doubled in size 1250 BCE, when the lion gate was constructed, expanded to include Grave Circle A wagon wheels marks present, shows that trade is happening post and lintel construction corbeled arch- stones layered together closer until they meet most likely taller relieving triangle with 2 figures made up same material (except heads, which are missing) unsure if they are lions, or composite animals

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Grave Circle A Stele from Grave V, Grave Circle A narrative scene charioteer rushing towards an individual with a sword , maybe funeral games relief

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"Mask of Agamemnon" Funerary Mask from Grave Circle A, 1600-1500 BCE repousse one of 5 gold masks found man's face, mustache, bushy eyebrows, mature age beard represents him as the establishment, status, ears are stylized seriousness conveyed, concentration

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Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, 1300-1250 BCE Grave A retired for rituals beehived shaped dromos- long path leading up to a cave, surrounded by a thick wall mini citadel doorway is post and lintel with relieving triangle on top porphyry- stone from egypt, purple, very hard stone corbeled, tholos tomb- stones get smaller as you get to the top ashlar masonry- finer cut stone than cyclopean, laid in regular courses

- Corbel-vaulted gallery in the circuit wall of the citadel, Tiryns, Greece, 1400-1200 BCE - use wall as defense - cyclopean masonry ends in a corbeled arch, intimidating - Megaron- main room of a palace with murals and decorative ceilings, all surfaces decorated, supported by columns

- space divided by rectangles 1...