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- Innermost Coffin of Tutankhamen
- Era: Armana Revolution (Post-Armana)
- Techniques:
- made of solid gold
- inlaid with enamel, semi-precious stones, lapis lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise
- coffin shaped as Osiris, god of death
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- Death Mask of Tutankhamen
- Era: Armana Revolution (Post-Armana)
- Techniques:
- gold inlaid with semi-precious stones
- he is eternally young because of the mask
- sensitive rendering - curvilinear and has more contours
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- Painted Chest
- Era: Armana Revolution
- Location: Thebes
- Techniques:
- lid depicts Tutankhamen hunting
- side shows him as a great conqueror
- no groundline - his troops are in registers to show organization
- hierarchy of scale
- traditional themes but in the armana style (curvilinear)
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- Cycladic Idol
- Era: Cycladic Art, 2500-2000 BCE
- Location: Syros
- Techniques:
- females are nude with folded arms
- vary in height from one inch to life size
- very flat - sometimes called plank idols
- human form reduced to basic geometric shapes for aesthetic reasons
- lots of triangles
- found in graves lying on back as if they were the deceased maybe
- some are slightly pregnancies
- some were painted
- jewelry attached or painted on usually red or blue necklaces or bracelets
- painted dots on cheeks
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- Lyre Player
- Era: Cycladic Art, 2000 BCE
- Location: Keros
- Techniques:
- male idols were seated musicians
- made of marble
- figure wedged between repeated shapes of lyre and chair
- disc shaped heads
- lyre had duck bill ornament
- both male and femal idols found in graves
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- Palace at Knossos
- Era: Minoan Art, 1600-1400 BCE
- Techniques:
- home of King Minus
- labyrinth legend comes from hundreds of rooms in palace
- house of the double axes
- built on low hill
- giant rectangular courtyard
- thick walls created by unshaped stones
- ashlar masonry - used finest stones to create corners
- had a drainage system and underground piping
- 3 stories high
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- View of Magazine
- Era: Minoan Art, 1600-1400 BCE
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- flat floors siwth thick walls and rectangleular holes cut into them
- used as a cooling system
- storage system
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- Reconstruction of Stairwell
- Era: Minoan Art, 1600-1400 BCE
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- designed to let in light and airflow
- surrounds mini-courtyard
- bulbish cushions for capitals
- tapered pillars (smaller at base)
- originally sculpted out of wood
- frescos on walls
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- Queen's Megaron
- Era: Minoan Art
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- elaborate wall decoration in the most important rooms
- wet plaster - requires quick painting but preserves better than dry plaster
- rounded fish and dolphins
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- Cupbearer Fresco
- Era: Minoan Art
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- several figures in original fresco
- long curly hair
- profile bodies with frontal eye
- rounded bodies
- confident look
- wore embroidered loin cloths
- bracelet on upper arm
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- Torreador Fresco
- Era: Minoan Art, 1400-1450 BCE
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- dark patches are original sections
- vivacity, spontaneous
- women are fair and men have dark skin
- man and beast connecting
- perilous acrobatic manuever
- elongating the bull shows its power and grace
- sweeping lines and smooth, rounded contours create the bull
- bull appears to be in a constant, fluid movement
- stylized humans with pinched waists
- profile body with frontal eye
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- La Parisenne
- Era: Minoan Art
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- part of a ceremonial scene
- sophisticated modern woman
- elaborate coiffure (hairstyle)
- priestess or goddess
- profile head with frontal eye
- charm and freshness
- wet fresco - quick, harsh brush strokes, extreme skill, simple and delicate
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- Flotilla Fresco
- Era: Minoan Art, 1500 BCE
- Location: Akrotiri, Santorini
- Techniques:
- flotillas are miniature ships
- Akrotiri covered in ash preserving the art
- found in common peoples homes
- depiction of a sea festival
- combining seascape and landscape
- people placed in poses depending upon their role
- dolphins swimming in sea around the boats
- lion chasing deer on left shore
- landscape is a undilating line showing a port circling around a bay
- freedom of movement
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- Springtime Fresco
- Era: Minoan Art, 1650 BCE
- Location: Akrotiri, Santorini
- Techniques:
- landscape with swallows
- capture landscape's essence and express joy in one's surroundings
- undilating lines represent that nature is constantly moving
- first true landscape painting - no humans or storylines
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- Young Fisherman Fresco
- Era: Minoan Art, 1500 BCE
- Location: Akrotiri, Santorini
- Techniques:
- profile legs with a slightly turned torso
- rounded figure
- would have been several fisherman
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- Octopus Jar
- Era: Minoan Art, 1500 BCE
- Location: Palikastro
- Techniques:
- octopus fits the shape of the pot
- fluid and lyrical
- muted tone
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- Three-Handled Jar with Papyrus Decoration
- Era: Minoan Art, 1425 BCE
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- papyrus blossoms spread out at top to mimic shape of jar
- geometric shaped could be sealife
- wavy lines could be water
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- Kamares Ware Jug
- Era: Minoan Art, 1800-1700 BCE
- Location: Phaistos
- Techniques:
- cream, black background, reddish-brown decoration
- ameba-like figure
- rounded shapes
- pouring end looks like the face of an animal
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- Harvester Vase
- Era: Minoan Art, 1550-1500 BCE
- Location: Hagia Triada
- Techniques:
- energetic scenes with individually characterized figures
- each individual ahs a different personality
- facial tension, and inflated lungs shows that the figures are singing
- probably a funerary vessel
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- Snake Goddess
- Era: Minoan Art, 1600 BCE
- Location: Knossos
- Techniques:
- made of glazed earthen ware
- glassy surface
- snakes mean that she is the goddess of the earth
- feline on head represents power over animals
- dress had concial-shaped tiers
- exposed breasts, fertility of the earth possibly
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- Citadel of Tiryns
- Era: Mycenean Art, 1400-1200 BCE
- Techniques:
- central open courtyard
- made of cyclopian stones with some mortar
- had bathrooms and channels with running water
- megaron was reception hall for king - 4 columned hall with a fire pit in the middle
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