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ARH STUDY GUIDE MINOAN MYCENIAN ART: CYCLADIC &HELLADIC 1,500 BC – Concurrent societies  Cycladic – In the Islands  Helladic – Mainland  They resided alongside the Aegean SeaVocabulary: Aegean Sea (Where they lived) * Marble * Knossos * idol * mural * Pithos * Queens’s Megaron * dolphin...

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ARH STUDY GUIDE  MINOAN MYCENIAN ART: CYCLADIC & HELLADIC  1,500 BC – Concurrent societies  Cycladic – In the Islands  Helladic – Mainland  They resided alongside the Aegean Sea Vocabulary: Aegean Sea (Where they lived) * Marble * Knossos * idol * mural * Pithos * Queens’s Megaron * dolphin mural * pottery * bull jumping * “La Parisenne” * octopus jar * Harvestor vase * snake goddess * vaphio cups * circle graves * beehive tombs * Tiryns * Lion Gate * Limestone *   Earliest Artwork: Cycladic Idols Made out of limestone as a symbol of worship (fertility)  Figure is stiff & was previously painted  World’s 1st Interior décor was MINOAN  Used a lot of colors  Painted murals & images  Arabesque lines –shape with no meaning  Dolphin Mural  Palace of Minos “The Queen’s Megaron”  Porpoise Dolphins o Had no purpose at all – pleasing to the eye  Minoan life was simple  No war, little disease, raised cattle, barter & trading  A LOT OF EARTHQUAKEs  1300BC- A bad earthquake caused the earth to switched crusts so a lot of the artwork and buildings are broken and lost due to that by 1300BC everything vanished  Fire Glazed Pottery  Carved & put holes to carry them  Made out of limestone, they lived in Crete – Rocky mainland Boxing Children was popular  Sport “La Parisiam” – Woman of Paris  Not a whore  A woman that wears lots of makeup Pithos Jars  Put small children in them to carve  Put in cool ground to preserve food Amphora Jar 

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 Most common shape  Octopi vase design – make the best seafood  They had a lot of different types of jars  Only dangerous animal at the time was the bull  They would fight them  Minoan Right of passage  they would jump over the bull  Wax loss  Toredor Fresco  bull jump  made of ivory  Minoan & Mycenaean language was  Linear B  Written and spoken  Idols & dieties  Snake Goddess  Boobs out  Venerated and used with prayers  Prayed to them  One deity would ask main God for things (e.g. Virgin Mary)  Begin to indicate good & bad things Mycenaean  Their artwork  McCropili  Mycenaean land was very harsh – a lot of people fished to eat  Lion heads at the gate are missing  Treasury of Atrius  Beehive toumbs  Nothing in them (NOW)  Circle graves – most artwork is found here  WHO WERE THE FIRST TO MAKE WEAPONS?  Mycenaean  Jewelry  also for men & women  Gold Masks  Some of them had paint  Aegean Art  Minoan Script – 2000 BCE  Name – Linear B  Linking Egypt and the near East Cycladic Art  2600 and 1100 BCE  Buried their dead with marble idols  Fertility Greek Art & Architecture Geometric Archaic Classical Hellenistic

Vocabulary: Greece * Aegean Sea * 5th century CE * 800BC -200 AD * contrapposto * pottery * Amphora * Orientalizing * kouros/kora * calf bearer * temples * foundation * façade * column * capital * pediment * frieze * Entablature * vase * slip * black figure * Entabliture * cella * vase * slip * black figure * red figure * roof * wood * post & lintel

5th century CE – Height of Classical period Contrapposto – weight shift Their sculptures were carved as an attitude to their world The Greeks had set up a list of Gods that they liked o The Gods and Goddesses made them beautiful o The worst thing to do was to go against the will of the Gods  5th century CE – Height of Classical period ALL ARTWORK WAS PAINTED  Asia Minor & Italy separated by the Adriatic Sea  Earliest form of Art  Venus Figurines o Fertile figures GEOMETRIC  Animal Figurines o Wax-loss method o Made out of ANIMALS (Bulls and Horses) o Made for APPEAL  Men could better themselves through education o Centaurs ½ men ½ horse o Can be good and bad “animal nature”  Playing shell o Not for God of music – for APPEAL Archaic  CORNROW HAIR  Koros & kore (male & female)  Votive figures were put in churches to pray on behalf of them  Made of limestone  Started to become natural  Vases: geometric shapes & ovals etc. o Greek vases w/ designs  Cosmopolitan images  Shapes like a triangle and concentric O’s o Related to seeing other designs and adapting to them  Orient: 700BC – East of the Mediterranean /Europe o Orientalizing – pottery had epic scenes and monsters o Ex. Odysseus Epics on his vase  No lions in Syria  why on vases? o To show flow of new ideas  Markets that they had – flow of ideas involved (sell art) o APPLE PEOPLE!  Urns: WERE GREEK! o Spiritual and made as a remembrance o Big on Cremation  Statues! Always had paint! o Earliest was the Kouros (male frame figure)  Limestone , marble, and bronze    

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o Buy them to pray for them & devotion to a God & Goddess o Archaic Hair The women statues were called kore o Wore white? Cloth o Face structure shows the beginning to look at neighbors o Body is mass, why lines?  3D and people tried to imitate nature Calf-bearer o A lot of $$$ involved to make one for oneself  Whole point was to be remembered after death 200 AD – Drawings (Earliest) Contrapposto - weight shift in the sculptures...