Egypt (New Kingdom), Cycladic Art (Ancient Aegean), Minoan, Mycenae, Geometric Greek, and Archaic Greek Exam Review ARTHC 201

Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

• Found at Deir el-Bahri

• Egypt (New Kingdom)

• Architect: Senmut

Built during the queens time as a pharaoh

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Daughters

• Found in Aten

• Egypt (New Kingdom)

• Limestone

Represents their connection to the sun god Aten and the shift in Egyptian art.

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer

• Found in Thebes, Egypt

• Egypt (New Kingdom)

• Painted Papyrus scroll from his tomb

Purpose is to depict the Egyptian belief in a divine judgement process that determines a persons afterlife

Cycladic Statuette

• often are found in cemeteries

• Cycladic Art (Ancient Aegean)

• Made of white marble

The exact purpose is unknown but thought to serve as religious idols or representations of the deceased

Bull Leaping Fresco

• from the “palace” complex found in Knossos, Crete

• Minoan Age

• Made of plaster

Purpose is to express the tension between humans and nature, and to reaffirm humanity’s triumph over animals.

Lion Gate

• found in Mycenae

• Mycenae Age

• Made of Limestone

Served as the main entrance to the citadel of Mycenae

“Treasury of Atreus” (Tholos Tomb)

• found in Mycenae, Greece

• Mycenae Age

• Made of stone blocks

Used to bury the elite and royalty in Mycenaean

Funerary Krater

• found in the Dipylon Cemetery in Athens

• Geometric Greek

Used for grave markers and to hold ritualistic offerings in a tomb.

Metropolitan Kouros

• Found in Attica, Greece

• Archaic Greek

• Made of Marble

A grave marker

Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game

• painted on a ceramic amphora

• Archaic Greek

• Exekias is both the potter and painter

A metaphor for the tragic future of the two hero’s in the Trojan war

Anavysos Kouros (Kroisios)

• from the cemetery ay Anavysos, near Athens

• Archaic Greek

• Made of marble with revenants of paint

Represents an idealized young male figure in his prime

Berlin Kore

• from the cemetery at Keratea, near Athens

• Archaic Greek

• Marble with remnants of red paint

Used as a votive offering or a representation of a goddess

Temple of Hera I

• found in Poseidonia in Southern Italy

• Archaic Greek

Dying Warrior, from the west pediment

• found in the Temple of Aphaia

• Archaic Greek

• Marble

Depicting a dying warrior

Dying Warrior, from the left corner of the east pediment

• found in the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina

• Archaic Greek

• Marble

Depicting a dying warrior