2. Where are the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean cultures geographically
located?
What are the main styles of art of each?
What cultures did they influence in later years?
What happened to each of these cultures?
4. Cycladic: 3000-1600 BC on islands in the Aegean Sea
Minoan: 2000-1200 BC on the island of Crete
Mycenaean: 1400-1100 BC on peninsula of Greece
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6. Figurine of a woman, from Syros (Cyclades),
Greece, ca. 2500-2300 BCE. Marble, approx. 1’6” high.
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8. Male lyre player, from Keros (Cyclades),
Greece, ca. 2700-2500 BCE. Marble, approx. 9” high.
9. Ruins of Palace of Minos, Knossos, Island of Crete, Greece ca. 1700-1400 BCE.
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11. Stairwell in the residential quarter of the palace at Knossos
(Crete), Greece, ca. 1700-1400 BCE.
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18. ***Minoan woman or goddess (La Parisienne), from the palace at Knossos
(Crete), Greece, ca. 1450-1400 BCE. Fragment of a fresco. Approx. 10” high.
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20. Toreador Fresco -Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos
(Crete), Greece, ca. 1500 BCE. BUON Fresco, approx. 2’8” high, including border.
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24. Landscape with swallows (Spring Fresco),
Akrotiri, Thera (Cyclades), Greece, ca. 1650 BCE. Fresco, approx. 7’6” high
Now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum Athens
25. Ship Fresco (left section- and right section), from Akrotiri, Thera, c. 1650–1500 B.C.,
49. Vault of the THOLOS of the
Treasury of Atreus,
Mycenae, Greece, ca.
1300-1250 BCE. Approx. 43’ high.
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52. Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt, from Grave Circle A,
Mycenae Greece, ca. 1600-1500 BCE. Bronze,
inlaid with gold, silver and niello, approx. 9” long.
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54. “Mask of Agamemnon,” from Mycenae, Funerary mask, from the Grave Circle A,
ca. 1600-1500 BCE. REPOUSSE: hammered gold, approx. 1’ high