Art History: Agean Art

Marble Stattuettes

• from Cylades islands

• shown with folded arms

• abstraction in some

“Male Harp Player”

• lively figure

• not depicting deceased

• suggests variety

Frescoes

• main art forms seen in Minoan art

• murals depicting rituals, landscape, etc

true or false: sea motifs are heavily present in this part of the world at this time

true

Knosses Palace

• palace of king minos

• maze-like design

• included system for collecting rain water using terracotta pipes

Minoan Pottery

• famous for painted designs

• polychromatic - multiple colors

• found in Egypt — they traded them.

Cyclopean Masonry

• later Greeks believed only cyclops could create these walls

• Arches: post and lintel, corbeled arch, arches

Treasure of Atreus

Beehive shaped tomb

long passage ways called “dromos”