Aegean Art and Architecture
Images to Identify:
Cycladic Art and Architecture
• Figure of woman from the Cyclades
• Seated Harp Player
Minoan Art and Architecture
• Aerial Photograph of Knossos
• Bull Jumping, wall painting
• Bull's-head rhyton
• "Flotilla" Fresco, Akrotiri, Thera
• Harvester Vase
• Kamares Ware jug
• Landscape (Spring Fresco)
• Minoan column
• Octopus flask
• Reconstruction of the palace complex, Knossos, Crete
• Snake Goddess/Woman with Snakes
• Vapheio Cups
• Young Girl Gathering Crocus Flowers
Mycenaean Art and Architecture
• Corbeled vault, interior of the tholos of the so-called Treasury of Atreus,
Mycenae, Greece
• Cutaway drawing of the beehive tomb called the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae,
Greece
• Dagger blade with lion hunt
• Funerary mask, "Mask of Agamemnon", from Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece
• Golden Lion's Head Rhyton
• Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece
• Mycenae (Aerial view), Greece
• Warrior Vase
Vocabulary:
ashlar
beehive tomb
buon (true) (wet) fresco
capstone
citadel
corbelled arch
cyclopean
dressed stone
faience
fresco secco (dry fresco)
megaron
minotaur
niello
relieving arch/triangle
repoussé
rhyton
tholos
Trojan War
Who was who in the Aegean world:
Agamemnon
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Heinrich Schliemann and Sophia Schliemann
Helen
Homer (Iliad and Odyssey)
King Menelaus of Sparta
King Minos
Paris
Sir Arthur Evans
Geography:
Athens
Crete
Cycladic Islands
Greece
Knossos
Mycenae
Naxos
Paros
Sparta
Thera
Troy