Aegean Flashcards
Eidolon meaning image. Marble sculptures were found lying down in gravel.
Cycladic Art
- Fresco
- Law of Frontality
Convention
Male = red or brown skin
Female = fair skin with pinched waists
Minoan Art
Palace of stone and wood for the king with so many chambers above and below the ground
Palace of Knossos
Plain column with a capital that resembles a cushion like form.
Pillow Capital
Small-scale sculpture showing a woman holding snakes, having power over the wild animals.
Snake Goddess
Entrance to the Mycenaean ruins that is a fortress on a hill. An example of corbelling.
Gate of Lions
Arranging layers so that each level projects beyond the lower level
Corbelling
Large rough, cut irregular blocks of stone. They believed that only a Cyclops could carry the large rocks.
Cyclopean Masonry
“Big room”; prehistoric throne
room.
Megaron
sanctuary & throne room
Naos
Beehive tomb meaning round building.
Tholos
Roadway accessing the Tholos.
Dromos