mediterranian Flashcards
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Sarcophagus, from Hagia Triada (Crete)
plaster covered limestone
Minoan sarcophagus
illustrate the funerary rites in honor of the dead
different colored people
men are tan women are pale
image all the way around
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cyclade
Most Cycladic statuettes depict nude women
The sculptor rendered the female body schematically as a series of triangles
buried with dead
fertility in next life
wouldve been painted
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The meaning of all Cycladic figurines is elusive, but this seated musician may be playing for the deceased in the afterlife. The statuette displays simple geometric shapes and flat planes.
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Restored view of the palace (looking northwest), Knossos (Crete)
Labrinth like
stone columns
early forms of ac and plumbing
home of Minos
largest Cretan palace
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The Knossos palace was complex in elevation as well as plan. It had at least three stories on all sides of the court. Minoan columns taper from top to bottom, the opposite of Egyptian and Greek columns.
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Minoan woman or goddess (La Parisienne), from the palace, Knossos
pigment on wet plaster
Frescoes decorated the Knossos palace walls. This fragment depicts a woman or a goddess—perhaps a statue—with a large frontal eye in her profile head, as in Mesopotamian and Egyptian art.
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Bull-leaping, from the palace, Knossos
fresco
man on bull with woman off to side
men proved manhood by jumping over a bull
restored
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Landscape with swallows (Spring Fresco), south and west walls of room Delta 2, Akrotiri, Thera
Aegean muralists painted in wet fresco, which required rapid execution. In this wraparound landscape, the painter used vivid colors and undulating lines to capture the essence of nature.
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Crocus gatherers, detail of the east wall of room 3 of building Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera
In a room at Akrotiri probably used for puberty rites, young girls pick crocus flowers in a rocky landscape recalling the Spring Fresco (Fig. 4-9), and present them to a seated goddess (not shown).
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Kamares Ware jar, from Phaistos
Kamares Ware vases have creamy white and reddish-brown decoration on a black background. This jar combines a fish (and a net?) with curvilinear abstract patterns, including spirals and waves.
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Marine-style octopus flask, from Palaikastro
Marine Style vases have dark figures on a light ground. On this octopus flask, the tentacles of the sea creature reach out over the curving surface of the vessel to fill the shape perfectly
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Snake Goddess, from the palace, Knossos
This figurine may represent a priestess, but it is more likely a bare-breasted goddess. The snakes in her hands and the feline on her head imply that she has power over the animal world.
one arm and the dog ontop was probably added later
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Young god(?), Palaikastro
copied egyptian stand
gold
not meant to last forever
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Harvesters Vase, from Hagia Triada
The relief sculptor of the singing harvesters on this small stone vase was one of the first artists in history to represent the underlying muscular and skeletal structure of the human body.
gold leaf
non canon
coming back from harvest
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Plan of the palace and southern part of the citadel, Tiryns
one enterance
the wall made it hard for right handed people to fight