Art 201 Greek and Roman Slide Review and Study Guide D. Sadler
Cycladic Art:
Cycladic Idols, marble, c. 2000 BCE
What is the function of Cyladic idols? Where were they found and how do
they vary? How does the medium affect the style of these works?
"Frying Pans"
Function? Style?
Minoan Art:
Beak Spouted Pitcher EMI 2800-2500 BCE
Vasiliki Ware Teapot EMII 2500-2200 BCE
Kamares Ware MM 2000-1700BCE Teacups, Pitcher, etc.
What is the evolution of Minoan pottery? What parallels, if any, exist with
Cycladic examples of pottery?
Octopus Stirrup Jar LMI 1600 BCE
Ewer LMI 1500 BCE
What do we know about Kamares ware pottery? How was it made and
where was it found?
Palace Style Amphora LMII 1450-1400 BCE
Floral Style Amphora --- Jug of Reeds LMII 1400 BCE
Bulls Head Rhyton
What is a rhyton? And what visual “cross-reference” do we have to the
function of these vessels in Minoan art?
Harvester Vase (steatite)
Snake Goddesses (faience)
What role does the goddess play in Minoan religion? Where were these
goddesses found?
Model house from Arkhanes
Faience town mosaic from Knossos
Miniature Double Axes from Arkalochori, Gold
How do the terra cotta house model and town mosaic help in the
archaeological reconstruction of Minoan palace architecture?
Minoan figure with dagger
Male worshippers from Tylissos
Rhyton with Peak Sanctuary
Ivory Acrobat
Palaces: Knossos, Phaistos, Hagia Triada
How is the chronology of Minoan palace construction established? What
are the two major palace periods and what caused the final eradication of
Minoan civilization?
Sir Arthur Evans----friend or foe?
Fresco Decoration: What types of wall decoration were common in
Minoan palaces?
What subject matter was favored? True fresco or dry fresco? Style?
Knossos: Bull Jumping, La Parisienne, Audience fresco, "Ladies in Blue,"
Prince with Feathered Crown, Dolphins, Griffins from throne room, etc.
Hagia Triada: Cat Stalking a pheasant
Thera: Boxing Children, Naval scenes from West House in Akrotiri
Akrotiri, Xeste 3, wall over lustral basin: 3 Females in a landscape--discuss! Women gathering Saffron
Sarcophagus from Hagia Triada
What is the significance of this monument? How does it temper our
ideas of Minoan “religion”?
Bee Pendant from Mallia
What technique is employed in this work?
Mycenaean Art:
Gold Kantharos from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, c. 1550 BCE
What technique is used in this work? Repoussé
Lion's Mask, from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, c. 1550 BCE
Mask of Agamemnon (sic) and others
Diadem
Vaphio Cups c. 1600-1500 BCE
What is the controversy regarding these repoussé cups? Do you feel they
are unmistakably Minoan or Mycenaean?
Niello Daggers---Lion hunt, sea creatures, flying animals; cf. seals with
similar subjects depicted
What is niello? What was the function of these daggers?
Grave Stele c. 1500 BCE chariot/hunting scene, made out of tufa
Head of a Sphinx, Stucco, c. 1500-1300BCE
Ivory Warrior LH 1300-1200 BCE
Helmeted Head
Three Deities, ivory, c. 1300-1200 BCE
What interpretations have been offered for this triad? Could it be a
purely secular work of art?
Mycenean Dollies, terra cotta, c. 1400-1200 BCE
Architecture:
Tiryns, LHIII, ramparts, casemates, bathroom c. 1400-1200 BCE
Mycenae, Grave circle A, megaron, lion gate
Pylos, LHIII 1400-1200 BCE, reconstruction of the megaron and
courtyard
What are the building materials? What does the presence or absence of
cyclopean walls signify? The existence of a secret cistern, the doubling
of elements, the function of different rooms?
Treasury of Atreus c. 1330 BCE
What are tholoi and can you trace their evolution from Shaft graves, etc.?
Corbeling!
Frescoes: Boar Hunt and Two Women in a Chariot, Tiryns
Women from Mycenae
What is the style of these frescoes and what is their debt, if any, to
Minoan fresco decoration?
Pottery: Octopus Jar 1400-1300 BCE
Kraters with scenes of Chariots, Cyprus
Warrior Vase c. 1200 BCE
DARK AGES...
What happened? Who turned off the artistic lights?
Why is this period dubbed the geometric period?
Proto-Geometric Amphora 950 BCE
Geometric Amphora 900-850 BCE
Dipylon Krater 750 BCE
Dipylon Amphora 750 BCE
Archaic Pottery:
MacMillan Aryballos c. 650 BCE
Proto-Corinthian Chigi Vase c. 650 BCE
Proto-Attic Amphora from Eleusis c. 650 BCE
Nessos Painter c. 630 BCE
Analatos Painter c. 600 BCE
Francois Vase Kleitias and Ergotimos c. 570 BCE
Amasis Painter
Exekias Achilles and Ajax Amphora and Dionysios in a Sailboat kylix c.
550-525 BCE
What is Black figure pottery? What was the role of the potter? the
painter? What subjects were favored in archaic pottery?
Sculpture:
Bronze horse
Mantiklos Apollo 690 BCE
Sounion Kouros c. 600 BCE
Kleobis and Biton
Dipylon Head
Calf Bearer 570 BCE
Volomandra Kouros c. 570 BCE
Rampin Rider
Anavysos Kouros "Kroisos" c. 520 BCE
Mycenae metope c. 650 BCE
Lady of Auxerre c. 590 BCe
Hera of Samos
Berlin Goddess c. 580-570 BCE
Peplos Kore c. 540 BCE
Kore from Chios c. 525 BCE
"La Delicata"
Euthydikos kore c. 510 BCE
What were the driving forces in archaic sculpture? What was the purpose
of the kouroi and korai? How did the choice of materials affect the
stylistic evolution of archaic sculpture? What about architectural
sculpture? Polychromy?