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37 Cards in this Set
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Palace Complex, Knossos, Crete
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- 1400-1250 BC
- Minoan |
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Minoan Civilization
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- Named for the king Minos
- Bronze age people living on Crete - Largest Aegean Island - Olive Oils and Wines - volcano or some other natural disaster destroyed civilization - no evidence of being conquered or minoans soldiers |
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Palace Complex Construction
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- Multi-storied, flat roofed, w/ many columns
- Designed for max. light - Courtyards very important - Small rooms arranged around the courtyards - Columns used to define access and circulation pattern |
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Sir Arthur Evans
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- 1900
- Excavated Minoan, Crete |
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Bull Leaping Wall Painting
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- 1500 BC
- Knossos -Some connection to Minoan culture: swayed back of bull with curled tail - Bull rep. Power - 3 scantily clad figures, wasp waists, 1 figure dark-skinned, 1 a woman - Perhaps ritual for fertility - Bull shown in flying gallop |
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Bull's Head Rhyton
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- 1500 BC
- Minoan culture - Drinking Cup - Lighly engraved lines filled with white powder |
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Pendant of Gold Bees
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- c. 1700-1550 BC
- 2 bees/symmetrical - Typical Minoan Art - Hammared Gold |
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Snake Goddess/Woman
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- 1500 BC
- Ritual object and work of art - Found in pit w/ other ceremonial objects in Knosso storeroom - Bare-breasted, arms held out w/ snakes in both hands - Wide belt to cinch waist - Dress in geometric patterns, with apron over the dress - lively and dauntingly, almost hypnotically powerful combination - Reps. deities or human attendants. |
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Kamares Ware Jug
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- 2000 BC
- Old Palace, Crete - How you use the jug important/ pictorial field (think about using the entire space - More informaiton where pot is bigger - Shape of hand continues the flow onto the pot - top looks like neck of a bird w/ an eye for the opening - Easy/Langid quality - Fitting form to shape - Feels like they did it for enjoyment |
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Octopus Flask
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- 1500 BC, Crete
- Appears as if octopus was laid on the vase - fill in w/ other flowy space - Horror Vaccui: fear of empty spaces |
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Horror Vaccui
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- Fear of empty space
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Harvester Vace
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- 1500 BC, Crete
- (rowdy) men in procession, 27 - Singing or shouting - Wasp waists, stylized face, big torso, skinny legs, standing on tippy toes - 3D space, overlapping and jostling one another instead of marching orderly |
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Vapheio Cup
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- 1500 BC, Minoan or Mycenaean
- Gold Cup - Hammared Gold (worked from the inside, then rolled around a bottom - Bulls on cup/swayed backs, natural - Relief design in repousse' (pushing up metal from the back) |
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Citadel at Mycenae
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- 1600-1200 BC, Mycenae
- Big wall @ entrance, were warriors w/ enemies - Fortified city (walls) - Burial Chamber - One one way into the city - Hilly path inside walls to get around - Terrain was very rocky |
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Lyon Gate, Mycenae
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- 1250 BC, Mycenae
- Same type column between the lions, like Minoan (large at top/skinny at bottom) - Symbolic entrance, scale shows importance/ meant to intimidate - Scale of stones are huge, cyclopean stones/walls - Don't know how they did it |
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Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae
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- 1200 BC, Mycenae
- Thought gold was there, not so - Think it was a tomb - Tomb was beehive shaped/ round structure - Tholos style - Burial chambers off of main entrance |
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City of Tiryns
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- Fortified City
- Megaron in center of site Wall / halls narrow - Medevil passageway in wall - set up to fight enemy - Cyclopean Walls |
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Megaron Layout
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- Front porch
- 2 columns to define entrance - Circular hearth in the center/ throne room |
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Mask of Agamemnon
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- 1500 BC (maybe older)
- Funerary mask - Death mask like Tut - Hammered Gold |
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Dagger Blade w/ Lion Hunt
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- c. 1550 to 1500 BC, Mycenaean
- Burial Objects - How they use the space - Same figures, lion hunt scene |
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What are the Greek Orders (3 total)
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Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
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The Geek Temple, Parthenon
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- Stick w/ the same combo of elements
-Pure and perfect on its own, can't build on it, as it is a work of art on its own. -Always a row of columns -Cella the main floor, one entrance, a porch called Pronaos -Commoners stay o/s (everything happens o/s, temple is the backdrop) -Raised on a platform -Altar o/s -Symmetrical |
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Metope
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Where you put the sculpture
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Gultoe (as part of a structure)
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where you put the pins
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Capital (as part of the structure)
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the top of a column
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Pediment (as part of a structure)
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Where you put the sculpture, triangular shape
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Ionic Order style
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Coninuous frieze, eg Elgin Marble
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Sculptures in the West Pediment - Temple of Aphaia
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- 500 to 490 BC; Greek Archaic
- Does the frame determine the sculpture or vice versa - Liked 3D objects, more real than paintings - Both free-standing sculpture and Relief - Makes it more real and physical - How they used the space and fit the objects into that space - Nothing behind it, just space (the horses head over edge comes later, to show 3D, goes back into space) |
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Dying Soldier in the West Pediment/right corner -Temple of Aphaia
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- 500 to 490 BC, Greek Archaic
- Archaic smile, big eyes |
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Dying Soldier in the East Pediment/ left cornder - Temple of Aphaia
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- 490 to 480 BC, Greek Archaic
- Huge shift in 10 years (soldier in the West Pediment) - More natural position, sense weight on the body, looking away, see more tendons and bone structure - A little more naturalistic with the foot over the ledge, using real space - Increased sense of softness - Can see the line of the Pediment, so soldier fit into it |
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The Archer, West Pediment - Temple of Aphaia
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- 500 to 490 BC; Greek Archaic
- Realistic Pose, position of the foot - Archaic eyes |
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Hercules, Atlas w/ the Lady and Apple, holding up the world
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- Greek/Severe Archaic
- Hercules offers to hold up the world for Atlas if he goes and finds the 3 golden apples - Hercules doesn't want to take back the world, so Hercules agrees if Atlas would take it back so he could find a cushion. As soon as Atlas takes the world back, Hercules takes off with the apples. |
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The Parthenon
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-447 to 432 BC
- Built on an uneven hill - Acropolis means High Hill - Destroyed during the Persian War - Geometry used to build - Ideal and real, built to put together what appears to be true (optical illusion) - Platform flat, but if it was it would look bowed - Used Doric and Ionic |
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Lapith and the Centaur - The Parthenon
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- 447 to 432 BC; Classical Greece
- Metope relief from the Doric Frieze, South side of the Parthenon - Beautiful composition - Drapery: makes the image pop, keeps curved lines - Meant to appreciate the sophistication of the piece - If you stare at it, it looks like a living, breathing piece - Compare to Olympian Sculpture (460 BC) |
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East Pediment Marbles, a/k/a Elgin Marbles @ BM - The Parthenon
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- 447-432 BC/Classical Greek
- "Wet Drapery" Style is important: reveals figure (no longer concealed); gives it weight and volume; can show movement |
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Three Goddesses - East Pediment, The Parthenon
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- 447-432 BC Classical Greek
- Sculptures are finished in the back even though you wouldn't see them (it matters to them) |
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Marshals and Young Women - East side - The Parthenon
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-447 to 432 BC; Classical Greek
- Like watching a movie - Calm, cool and collective patterns - From the Ionic Frieze |