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Title: Ancient Greece: The Classical Spirit


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Ancient Greece The Classical Spirit
  • Early Greece

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Cycladic Culture
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Cycladic Culture
  • Statuettes
  • Carved in marble
  • Range of sizes
  • Figures not made to stand up
  • Nude, mostly female
  • Characteristics include crossed arms, no attire
    or jewelry
  • Non-naturalistic anatomy
  • Proportions vary but unvarying pose

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Cycladic Culture
Found in burial sites Mostly female
figures Possibly a mother goddess
Seated Harp Player, Keros, Cyclades
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Cycladic Culture
  • Compare/Contrast the Cycladic Statue with the
    Woman at Willendorf

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Cycladic Culture
  • Mural
  • Shows affection for nature
  • Not realistic but interpretations
  • Colorful, have rhythmic translation but does not
    tell a story

Landscape, wall painting with areas of modern
reconstruction, from Akrotiri
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Cycladic Culture
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Minoan Civilization
  • Crete (2500-1250 B.C.)
  • Created by offspring of Zeus, King Minos
  • The Rape of Europa, by Titian 16th century
  • Palace-cities
  • Artisans jewelry, figurines
  • Women unusually free and equal

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Minoan Civilization
  • Sailors and traders
  • Crete-largest of the Aegean islands
  • Natural protection peaceful life

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Minoan Civilization
  • Art and Architecture
  • Military subjects rare
  • Architecture not fortified but domestic in nature
  • Mostly palaces
  • Religion was important but no temples found
  • Art was inspired by landscape
  • Interpretative not realistic

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Minoan Civilization
  • Palace of Minos
  • Covered 6 acres, built around a central courtyard
  • Open and airy but low ceilings
  • Walls covered in stucco murals
  • Continually modified
  • Volcano?
  • labrynth

-Basement used for storage and to hide
treasure -Good plumbing with sewage system
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Minoan Civilization
  • Inverted column
  • Tapers downward
  • Made of wood
  • Painted red
  • Stood on stone bases and
  • topped with cushion shaped capitals

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Minoan Civilization
  • Art
  • Fresco
  • Ornate wall paintings
  • Toreador Fresco
  • Depicts bull vaulting

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Minoan Civilization
  • Ceramic War 2 styles Kamares Palace

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Minoan Civilization
  • Palace Style
  • Naturalistic, graceful
  • Forms do not go over the surface of the vase
  • Delicate
  • Decorated in dark colors with light background
  • Kamares Style
  • Naturalistic, graceful
  • Forms are flowing, go over the edge of the vase
  • Swirls and wave patterns
  • Decorative, dynamic
  • Heavy, thick and asymmetrical
  • distinguished by dark purple color with touches
    of white and orange red.

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Minoan Civilization
  • Sculpture
  • No large sculptures
  • Snake Goddess
  • Glazed ceramic
  • Rounded limbs and body, pinched waist

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Mycenaean Civilization
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Mycenaean Civilization
  • Greek mainland (1600-1150 B.C.)
  • Mycenaens warriors and pirates
  • Built strong fortresses because of continual
    invasion
  • Treasure found in Mycenae includes the Mask of
    Agamemnon
  • After Trojan War, Mycenae fell

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Mycenaean Civilization
Warrior Vase
Lion Gate
Gold Mask
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  • Compare the treatment of the human figure and
    experience in Greek art and literature to the
    arts of Egypt and Mesopotamia
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