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- Corbeled Gallery
- Era: Mycenean Art
- Location: Tiryns
- Techniques:
- 20ft thick
- cantilevered technique - rocks slowly merge at top thru multiple layers
- use mortar or wedge clay or small stones inbetween the stones
- primitive vaulting
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- Lion Gate
- Era: Mycenean Art, 1300 BCE
- Location: Mycenae
- Tecnhiques:
- limestone relief panel
- post and lintel construction under lions
- lions carvedin high relief - no heads
- lions face columns in center
- column represents palace itself - paying homage to the ruler inside
- deisgned to harmonize dignity, strength, and scale
- if they were composite they would have had the face of the ruler
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- Treasury of Atreus
- Era: Mycenean Art, 1400 BCE
- Location: Mycenae
- Techniques:
- dig long underground shafts called dromoses
- dug into a mound
- tholos is actual tomb
- lined with stone
- floor of pebbles
- post and lintel construction of doorway with relieving triangle
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- Tholos
- Era: Mycenean Art
- Techniques:
- bee hive tomb
- part of a grave circle
- oculus is an opening at the top that they sealed
- rough stones on bottom and finer stones on top
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- Death Mask (Mask of Agamemnon)
- Era: Mycenean Art, 1500 BCE
- Location: Royal Tombs, Mycenae
- Techniques:
- repousse technique (beating the metal into shape)
- rendering of an individualized human face
- closed eyes
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- Inlaid Dagger Blades
- Era: Mycenean
- Location: Royal Tombs, Mycenae
- Techniques:
- bronze inlaid with gold and silver
- longest one depicts hunters fighting a lion
- another one depicts lions fleeing
- different one depict lions attacking a deer
- figures have thin waistlines and long hair
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- Vaphio Cups
- Era: Mycenean, 1500 BCE
- Location: Laconia
- Techniques:
- repousse technique
- two layers of gold, inner one in smooth
- all cups have bulls
- each cup has 3 scenes
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- Warrior Vase
- Era: Mycenean, 1200 BCE
- Location: Mycenae
- Techniques:
- typical Minoan figures with longer noses
- long necks
- detailed hemlets
- frontal torso and eye, profile legs and head
- not individuals
- no setting or landscape
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