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Chapter 4 - Aegean Art

11/9/2015

 
LEARN ABOUT IT:
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4.1     Compare and contrast the art and architectural styles developed by
          three Aegean Bronze Age cultures.
4.2     Evaluate how archaeology has recovered, reconstructed, and inter-
          preted ancient Aegean material culture despite the limitations of
          written documents.
4.3     Investigate the relationship between art and social rituals or com-
          munal practices in the ancient Aegean cultures.
4.4     Assess differences in the designs and use of the large architectural
          complexes created by the Minoans and the Mycenaeans.
IMAGES (be able to identify these images by title, date, medium, and culture of origin)
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4-1 Girl Gathering Crocus Flowers
4-2 Figure of a Woman
4-7 Bull Leaping
4-10 Bull's Head Rhyton
4-11 Octopus Flask
p. 92 - Mural from Akrotiri
4-15 Citadel at Mycenae
4-17 Lion Gate, Mycenae
4-19 Reconstruction drawing/Megaron
4-20 "Mask of Agamemnon"
4-22 (and 23 and 24) Tholos
4-25 Warrior Krater

You should be familiar enough with other images presented in the text and lectures, so as to be able to support explanations of attribution and physical, formal, iconographical, and contextual analysis.
VOCABULARY
  • fresco (buon vs. secco)
  • Bronze Age
  • dressed stone
  • faience
  • rhyton
  • krater
  • filigree
  • granulation
  • repoussé
  • niello
  • gilding
  • gold leaf
  • Helladic
  • megaron
  • cyclopean construction
  • citadel
  • ring walls
  • relieving arch
  • chevron
  • running spiral
  • tholos
  • corbelled vault
  • shaft grave
  • course
  • ashlar
  • beehive tomb

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