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Chapter 4: Ancient Aegen Flashcards

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Buon Fressco

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Color absorbed by the plaster becoming permanent part of the wall

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Fresco secco

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Painting on dried plaster, colour may eventually flake off

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Archaeology

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Study of human activity through recovery and analysis of material culture

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Seafaring culture

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People that are fit to travel the sea… ?

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ceramics (faience)

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Covering clay with water colours.. Like plates and stuff

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Dressed stone

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Cut block of stone finely cut, like really finely cut, like just cut so nice wow

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‘palace’ complex

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Entire area of a palace

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labyrinth

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Maze?

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Rhytons

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Drinking vessel usually in the shape of an animal head or a horn

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Filigree

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Ornamental work of fine (typically gold or silver) wire formed into delicate tracery

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granulation

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Tiny metal balls are fused onto solid surface

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Krater

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Greek vessel for mixing wine and water

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Repousse

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Hammering metal from the back to create a protruding image

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Niello

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Black sulfur alloy is rubbed into fine lines engraves into metal

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Gliding

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Applying of paper leaf gold to an object made from another medium

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Megaron

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Main hall of myceanean place or ground

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Cyclopean

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Method of construction using huge blocks of rough-hewn stone

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Arch

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Curved symmetrical structure

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Shaft Graves

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Deep pit used for burial

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Tholos/beehive tombs

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Corbeled vault

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Vault made by projecting courses of stone

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Ashlar

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Cut stone shaped stuff lol

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Minoan (Thera and Crete)

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Minoan - Bronze age arose on the island of Crete and other Aegean islands
Crete - Island southeast of Greece in the Mediterranean Sea
Thera - Greek island in Southern Cyclades

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Mycenaen (Hellas)

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Late Bronze Age civilization in Greece (rep by finds at Mycenae and other ancient cities of peloponnesus

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Cycladic (cyclades)

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Group of Greek islands

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Aegean and Mediterranean Seas

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Aegean is elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas

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King Minos

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First king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa

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Knossos

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Ruined City on North Crete … capital of ancient Minoan Civilization

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Heinrich Schliemann

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German arch.. Troy, Mask of Agamemnon

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Iliad

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Ancient Greek poem in dactylic hexameter

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Photo: Female Figure of Late spedos type

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c. 2500-2400 BCE, Paul Getty Museum
- Strictly symmetrical, arms folded just under breasts
- Long neck, feautures faces except for prominent elongated nose

  • Incised lines to indicate joints/juncters
    Planned with compass
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Photo: Head of Woman from island of Keros

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c, 2700-2300 BCE

  • often found in graves..
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Photo: Girl gathering saffron Crocus flowers

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c, 1630 BCE. Greece

- Adolescent girl gathering saffron  - Saffron used as yellow textile dye and to produce medicine to alleviate menstrual cramps  - Girl shows characteristics of childhood & adolescence  - Fresco may have adorned room housing coming of age ceremonies for young women - Minoan influences
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The Old palace Period

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c. 1900-1700 BCE

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The new Palace period

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c. 1700-1450 BCE

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Photo: Minotaur, Greco-Roman copy after figure from a Theeseus group

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  • Legend of king Minos
  • Minotair in maze called Labyrinth (at knossos) son of the wife of King Minos and a bull belonging to Poseidon
  • Minos ordered Athenians to send 14 young men and women
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Photo: Karmares Wear Jug

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Phaistos Crete, Old Palace period, c. 2000-1900 BCE

  • Exported as far as Egypt and Syria
  • Very thin, colorful, and gracefully decorated
  • Beaked pouring spout
    Bold, curving decoration derived from plane life seems to swell with contours of the jug
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Photo: Corridor near Central Stair, east wing upper level.

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Palace of Minos, c. 1700-1450 BCE

  • Built on croc of the earlier acrch complex in new palace period after earthquake
  • Multistoried, flat-roofed, many columns
  • Designed for maximum light and air and to define access and circulation patterns
  • Large, central courtyards with rooms arranged around them
  • Commercial centers with workshops and foodstuffs
    Columns made from inverted tree trunks with wide capitals
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Photo: Bull leaping, wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction

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Palace complex Knossos, c. 1450-1375 BCE

  • Geometric borders
  • Buon fresco and fresco secco
  • Outlined figures with elegant lines, bright, unshaded pure color
  • Usually profiles or full faces views
  • Light-skinned women and dark-skinned men
  • Stylized bull in “flying gallop pose”
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Photo: Statue from crete

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Second Palace Period, c. 1550 BCE

  • Male figure in ritual bull leap
  • Precisely modeled veins and muscles
  • Holes in head would have held glided bronze wires for swept hair
  • Piece of set, originally showing bull, sacred pillar, and possibly a goddess connected to sacred bull games
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Photo: Harvester Rhyton

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Hagia Triada, c. 1650-1450 BCE

  • Stone vessels used for pouring liquids likely as part of rituals
  • 27 male figures overlap in 3D space
  • Bold facial features show emotions
  • Sinewy bodies show ribs
  • Possible interpretations?: spring planting or fall harvested festival, religious procession, dance, crowd of warriors, gang of forces laborers
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Photo: 2 Bull head Rhytons

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  • Carved stone vessels
  • Detail in the bull’s coat
  • White shell outlines nostrils
  • Horns made of wood covered with gold leaf
    Fluid flowed from mouth
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Photo: Octopus flask

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Paalaikastro, New Palace period, c. 1500-1450 BCE

  • “marine style” depictions of sea life in surface decoration
  • ”.. Grace and energy of natural forms” presented as stylized design
  • Decoration complements bulging shape of the flask
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Photo: Pendant of Gold Bees,

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Old period, c. 1700-1550 BCE

  • Sophisticated use of filigree and granulation
  • Stylized bees around honeycomb of gold granules with one pair of wings
  • Filigree spider-like form with legs encircling global ball

EDVS 1660: History 1 (7 decks)

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