SET 3 - History of Art: ID-2242: Exam 2

Minoan and Mycenean

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Throne room, Palace of Knossos, Crete,

1400 BC

Minoan Art

• *Composite form peacock head/lion body

• *Labrys axe on either side of throne

• *Evans restored

• Labyrinth

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Toreador fresco, Palace of Knossos Crete,

1400 BC

Minoan Art

• Spanish sport of bullfighting, bull-leaping

• *Profile view

• *Schemata of human form compares to entasis of minoan column

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Mycenaean Warrior vase,

1200 BC,

Mycenaean art

• *Composite view

• Handle: lion’s head. Symbolic imagery.

• - Separated soldiers and focusing on details like shields and weapons. Marching

• sequence. (unlike minoan)

• - No overlapping, not minoan scheme for human form

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Harvester’s vase,

1500 BC,

Minoan art

• *harvest of olives, frontal eye, profile face

• Overlapping together, smiling,

• - Celebration of nature seasons, earthly existence.

• - Minoan columns through human body (torso, broad shoulders, etc

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Queen’s chamber: “dolphin” fresco

1400 BC

Minoan Art

• Putting puzzle like pieces together

• - Reference to crete as an island

• - Representing the dolphins realistically (swimming on the wall with other fish)

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Snake goddess, Knossos,

1600 BC

Minoan Art

• Lots of depictions of females holding snakes

• - Narrow waist, and if legs were there, they would be elongated

• - Maybe giving reference to the minoan columns

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“Cupbearers procession” fresco, Knossos,

1400 BC

Minoan Art

• Bringing an offering in, walking forward

• - Profile view, frontal eye

• - Apart of a celebration

• - Schema for representing the human form (narrow shoulders, tiny waist).

• - Resemblance to the minoan column

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“Springtime” fresco, Thera,

1650 BC

Minoan Art

• - Representing the beauty of island setting and nature.

• - Iris is growing on outcroppings, birds flying, colorful, decorated.

• - Scene about beauty, no history telling

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“Fisherman” fresco, Thera,

1650 BC

Minoan Art

Appropriate to island.

- No consistent profile view

- Schema for representing the human form through the minoan column

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“Wrestlers” fresco, Thera,

1650 BC

Minoan Art

• Overlapping, realistic post.

• - Gesture are punching each other.

• - Representing if its taking place

• - Realism

• - References Minoam column through human body

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Octopus vase,

1500 BC

Minoan Art

• Made out of clay

• - Representing island existence.

• - Its existing, conforms to the curve of the vase

Citadel, Mycenae

• Military stronghold

• - Fortified city, walls 20 feet thick.

• - Shaft graves

• - Burial with full sets of armor and weapons

• - Corbel;corbelling

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shaft grave circle,

1400 –1200 BC

Mycenaean Art

• in shaft graves found full sets of armor and weapons

• - Heavily fortified, fortified within fortified.

• - Massive stones to produce fortification.

• -Entire city is designed with these stones

corbelling

one stacked in levels progressively projected

forward until they meet at the top. Formed a curve

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Lions Gate,

1300-1250 BC

Mycenaean Art

• Corbelling

• - Mycenaean guardian figure, propagandistically.

• - Two lions, minus their heads. Mutilation to their heads by another culture.

• Propogandisitc

• - Minoan column in the middle → representing the defeat of the minoan civilization

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“Treasury of Atreus,” Mycenae,

1300-1250 BC

Mycenaean Art

• Named by schliemann

• Atreus: a king of Mycenae → Father of Agamemnon, Menelaus

• - Subterranean

• - Grave circle inside

• - 48 feet in diameter, 50 feet tall at highest point. Massive

• - Beehive tomb: corbelled in the round (domelike)

• - Corbelling right over the door

• - Lintel stone above doorway: 120 tons

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Funeral Masks,

1600-1400 BC

Mycenaean Art

• Found in the grave circle

• - Masked placed over the deceased.

• - Zoomorphism: lion and human

• - Repousse

Repousse

a metalworking technique in which a sheet of gold is hammered against a form; the details on the form are then transferred to the gold sheet

Connoisseurship

making judgements about quality, skill or excellence.

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Dagger Blades,

1400 BC

Mycenaean Art

Ceremonial, not for weapon

- Bronze with gold, silver inlay

- Found in Mycenae

- Buried in the grave circles

- One has the schema in the Minoan human form. Symbolic of the battle against them. Consistent with Mycenaean imagery. Overlapping, representing motion

- Other dagger from has no minoan schema .

- Minoan gold workers and Mycenaean gold worker (probably happened when Mycenaean brought over Minoan workers when they defeated them )

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Vaphio cups,

1400 BC

Mycenaean Art

• Found in Mycenae but by minoan metalworks

• Style: minoan (they still worked in their own style).

• “How to capture a bull” in one cup

• Answer is to dance or do battle with the bull. Outcome is tragic. Human is trampled over by the bull

• Repousse:

• - Other cup has a depiction of tricking the bull rather than going into battle with thebull.

• - Neck to back of minoan column

Minoan Column

• Capital at the top, shaft in the middle, base at the bottom.

• - Entasis:

• - Cushion capital (curved area)

- Entasis:

change in diameter of shaft from top to base. Larger d at the top

Arthur Evans

• Archaeology of “restoring”

• Minoan Columns

• Palace of knossos

Henirich Schliemann

• Archeology of “Preserving” -  maintaining the artifact in the condition it was found during excavation

• - Archaeologist of mycenae and troy