Two figures of women

c. 2500 - 2200 BCE

Cycladic

*Marble from Naxos and Paros

*Found on graves

*Simple violin-like shapes

*Simple contours

*Position suggests sleep

*Minimal anatomical detail

*Originally painted facial features

Seated Harp Player

c. 2800 - 2700 BCE

Cycladic

*Fully developed sculpture in the round

*Reduced to geometric essentials with careful attention to elements that best characterize musician

*Maybe votive figure

Palace Complex

Knossos

c. 2000 - 1375 BCE

Minoan

*Dressed stone walls

*Multistoried

*Indoor plumbing

*Columns/other interior elments made of wood

*Store rooms

Kamares ware jug

c. 2000 - 1900 BCE

Minoan

*Extremely thin walls

*BEaked pouring spout

*Graceful, stylized painted decorations

*Decorations follow curves of the jug

Pendant of Gold Bees

c. 1700 - 1550 BCE

Minoan

*Borrowed from Near East (Puabi's Headdress)

*Simple geometric patterns and shapes

*Repousse

*Niello

*Gliding

*Gramulation

Woman or Goddess with Snakes

c. 1700 - 1550 BCe

Minoan

*Egyptian/Near Eastern frontality

*Minoan Flounced dress

*bare chest indicative of fertility goddess

*May be assosicated with water, regeneration power, or protection of the home

*Feline on head

Harvester Vase

c. 1650 - 1450 BCE

Minoan

*Rhyton

*Usually found in fragments, indicative of ritual breaking

*May have been covered in gold leaf

*27 men

*Bursting with energy

*Unprecedented facial xpression

*Together, not single file

*First interest in showing muscles/skeletons

Bull's head ryhton

c. 1550 - 1450 BCE

Minoan

*Not a god

*Decorative detailing

Octopus Flask

c. 1500 - 1450 BCE

Minoan

*Marine style

*Tentacles embrace shape and emphasize volume

*Reversed scheme (dark shape on light background)

Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers

c. 1700 - 1450 BCE

Minoan

*Fresco

*Stylization turns natural forms into decorative patterns

*Saffron valuable for use as dye, food flavoring, and medicine

Landscape (Spring Fresco)

c. 1630 - 1500 BCE

Minoan

*Freshness and vitality of Aegean world

*Captures landscape essence

*Curving lines celebrate rythms of spring

Bull Leaping

c. 1550 - 1450 BCe

Minoan

*Maybe an initiation or fertility ritual

*Pinched waist typical of Minoan

*Pale skin, female; red skin, male

Vapheio Cup

c. 1650 - 1450 BCE

Minoan

*Repousse

*Muscularity despite small size

Citadel

Mycenae

c. 1600 -1200 BCE

Lion Gate

Mycenae

c. 1250 BCE

Mycenaen

*Relieving triangle

*Corbeled arch

*Lion stone slab carved in high relief

Mask of Agamemnon

c. 1600 - 1550 BCE

Mycenaean

*Repousse

*Handlebar mustache/large ears

Entrance to Tholos

So-called Treasury of Atreus

c. 1300 - 1200 BCE

Mycenaean

*Beehive tomb

*Cyclopean construction

Plan of Citadel at Tiryns

c. 1600 -1200 BCE

Mycenaean

*Left attackers with exposed right side

*Outer walls 20ft think

*Corbelled vaulted casemates in walls

Corbel-vaulted Casemate

Inside ring wall at Tiryns

c. 1365 BCE

Mycenaean

*20 ft think

Megaron in the palace at Pylos

c. 1300 - 1200 BCE

*4 columnss around a central hearth

*Roof section above the hearth open/raised

*Every inch painted

Two Women with a Child

c. 1400 -1200 BCE

Mycenaean

*Familial theme

*Carefully observed natural form

*Sculture in the round

*Minoan flounced skirt

*Product of Minoan/Mycenaean artistic exchange

Warrior Vase

c. 1300 - 1100 BCE

Mycenaean

*Marching rythym

Dagger blade with lion hunt

c. 1550 - 1500 BCE

Mycenaean

*Hunters are Minoan in style

*Subject borrowed from Near East