Worksheet #5 Aegean Art (Chapter 4)

Cycladic Art

Use, style and representation?

Minoan Art

v     Architectural style - Palace of Knossos-

v     Column design/material-

v     Painting

v     Characteristics of the figure-

v     True Fresco (buon or wet)

v     Landscapes-

v     Pottery - Kamares Ware-

v     Sculpture

v     Harvesters Vase-

v     Musculature and Skeletal structure-

v     Snake Goddess-

v     Faience-

v     Implied power-

Mycenaean Art

v     Architectural style - Citadel at Tiryns-

v     Cyclopean masonry-

v     Corbeled Gallery-

v     Lion Gate at Mycenae-

v     Post and lintel- Relieving triangle-

v     Treasury of Atreus

v     Tholos-

v     Metalwork, Sculpture, Painting-

v     Repousse`-

v     Warrior Vase