IRH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Art Of Ancient Egypt, Peplos Kore, Archaic Smile
16 May 2016
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Art of the aegean world and ancient greece. Theme is naturalism, which is an outgrowth of a desire to intensify expressive content and create narratives. Aegean world (bronze age civilizations): civilizations overlap each other and overlap. Egyptian/mesopotamian art: cycladic: 3000-1600 bc, we only have things for archaeological evidence, minoan: 1900-1375 bc, we only have things for archaeological evidence, mycenaean: 1600-1100 bc, we have oral tradition, such as the illiad. Greeks showed up on the greek mainland around 1200 bc and absorbed and undone mycenaean culture. Cycladic: figure of a woman (2600-2400 bc: over time these gures became more and more abstract, male gures are tubular, female gures are at. Minoan: crete (knossos): palaces: minoan civilization, based on a greek myth about the minotaur on the island of. Crete (theseus and the minotaur: sir arthur evans used this myth as a basis for reality and discovered the palace of. Friday, september 18, 2015: architecture- columns taper towards the base.
