ARTH 103 1st Edition Exam 2 Study Guide Cycladic 2700 2300 bce art consists of bronze pottery painted marble statues material was abundant and cheap and gravesites also art for the living Male Lyre Player Marble Keros Cyclades Terracotta c 2700 2500 Approximately 9 high Minoan Minoan frescos art depicted teens never adults deities kings or queens Navy based trade civilization whose art is found around the world Leaping Bull Knoss Crete Stucco panel c 1550 1450 bce Seems to have some religious significance Knossos 1380 1100 bce Possibly a trading depot made of timber with plumbing and running water thought to be peaceful w no defense structures and painted in bright garish colors Reconstruction of the Knossos palace complex in Crete huge structure c 2000 1375 bce Mycenaean Conquered Minoans used corbelled stone and limestone and had death masks Lion Gate Mycenae Greece c 1300 1250 bce Limestone relief panel approximately 9 6 high Suggests conquering of Minoans by Mycenaeans Treassury of Atreus Mycenae Greece c 1300 1200 It is a tomb not a treasury the name just happened to stick Made of corbelled stone Geometric Greek Art c 800 700 bce Geometric Krater from Dipylon cemetery Athens Greece c 740 bce Approximately 3 4 high It was a type of Greek decorative vase that was NOT used for wine although it s shape implies it Archaic Greek Art c 700 480 bce Suicide of Ajax Black figure amphora c 540 bce Painted by Exekias Moving away from former geometric style archaic art is more naturalistic Amphora is a Greek vase used for ready to drink wine although this one is for storage The beginning of individual creativity of art Exekias signed his name claiming art as his own Standing Youth Kouros c 580 Marble 5 5 A type of mortuary art found in burial sites Kroisos c 530 bce More naturalistic compared to Standing Youth in such a comparatively short amount of time Male bodies were viewed as perfect beautiful body types male nudes were more prevalent than female nudes Females were viewed as erotic irrational and their bodies were covered in art when depicted Classical Greek Art c 480 400 bce Parthenon c 447 438 bce By architects Iktinos and Kallikrates Lapith versus Centaur Metope from south side of the Parthenon Acropolis Athens Greece c 447 438 bce Marble Approximately 4 8 high Young Warrior c 460 450 bce Bronze Doryphoros By Polykleitos c 450 440 bce Hellenistic Greek Art 400 146 bce Battle of Issus By Philoxenos of Eretria c 310 bce Roman copy Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun Pompeii Italy late second or early first century bce Tessera mosaic approximately 8 10 X 16 9 Extra key words Column Orders Necropolis Persian War Athens Athena Trojan War Roman Origin Myths Etruscan Mystery Cults Republic Pompeii Augustus Be Able to Identify parts of a Greek Temple Concret