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Aegean Art


Key Ideas

In the late 1800s, Heinrich Schliemann started to excavate some of the very cities at Mycenae that Homer had described in the Illiad. The Cycladic Islands are still a bit of a mystery when it comes to the marble male and female figurines found at burial sites. The great Palace at Knossos, located on Crete, is where one of the first Western civilizations emerged.

​​1. Cycladic figurines are based on conjecture usually found at burial sites.
​2. Early Minoan culture is open and non-militaristic. Includes great palace architecture
3. Mycenae mercenaries made stops in Crete to and from Egypt
​4. Early to mid 15th c. BCE earthquakes and tsunamis weaken Minoan cities; mostly likely assimilated into Mycenaean culture. 

Timeline

Need to know dates:
2500 BCE: Cycladic
1500 BCE: Minoan
1250 BCE: Mycenaen
​2550 BCE​
​1792-1750 BCE​
ca. 1700 BCE
1473 -1458 BCE
1450 BCE
ca 1400 BCE
1400 BCE
​1333 -1323 BCE
Building of the Great Pyramids
Hammurabi rules

Linear A is developed
Hatshepsut rules
Mycenaeans at Knossos
 Linear B is developed
Citadel at Tiryns
 Tutankhamen rules
Picture

Additional Resources

Study Guide
YouTube video: Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece
YouTube video: Harp Player (male)

Vocabulary

Painting/Sculpture:
fresco
profile view
motifs
negative/positive shapes organic/geometric designs
incised lines
repoussé

Architecture:
labyrinth
tapered column
abacus
citadel
stone courses
tholos/beehive tomb
cyclopean masonry
corbelling
megaron

Artwork List

Cycladic
Cycladic Figurines

Minoan
Kamares Pottery
Harvester Vase
Leaping Bull
Palace at Knossos

Mycenaean
Agamemnon’s Mask
Tholos Tombs (Treasury of Atreus)
Lion Gate

Notecard Images

Acknowledgements:  Information contributed by Silvia Wiedman
Links and information provided by Valerie M. Park  © 2013  www.mchsapah.com
Special thanks to the AP Summer Institute in Rome collaboration with Margaret Sharkoffmadrid
Copyright © 2019 A Vallecorsa
  • HOME
  • APAH
    • Introduction
    • Wölfflinian / Dvorak
    • Global Prehistory
    • Near East
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Oceana
    • Americas
    • Islamic Art
    • Aegean
    • Ancient Greece
    • Etruscan
    • Roman Empire
    • Late Antiquity
    • Byzantium
    • Romanesque
    • Gothic
    • Northern Renaissance
    • 14th c. Early Renaissance
    • 15th c. Renaissance
    • High Renaissance + Mannerism
    • Baroque
    • New Spain in America
    • The Enlightenment
    • Early Modernism
    • Modernism
    • Post Modernism
    • Contemporary
    • Global Art >
      • Africa
      • China + Korea
      • Japan
      • South + Southeast Asia
  • AET
  • ART
    • 3D Design
    • 2D + Drawing
    • Sculpture
    • Art 3
    • Art I
  • RESOURCES
    • Flags
    • Videos and Tutorials
    • Useful Sites
    • Books & Films
    • Notecards
    • 250 Image List
    • Reviewing APAH
    • Scholarships
  • EVENTS
    • LOCAL GALLERIES
    • Tours
    • CALLS FOR ENTRY
    • BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY
    • FWTC
  • CONTACT