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Figurine of a woman, Syros, ca. 2500-2300 BCE.
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Simple geometric forms.
Standing on tip toes. Can't stand Found in Graves |
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Male lyre player, from Keros, ca. 2700-2500 BCE
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Found in Grave
Simplified Figures |
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Palace at Knossos, ca. 1700-1400 BCE.
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Minoan woman, La Parisienne, ca. 1450-1400 BCE.
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Bull-leaping, Palace of Knossos, ca. 1450-1400 BCE.
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Spring Fresco, Thera, ca. 1650 BCE.
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Octopus jar, ca. 1500 BCE
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Snake Goddess, ca. 1600 BCE
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Harvesters Vase, ca. 1500 BCE
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Lion Gate, Mycenae, ca. 1300- 1250 BCE
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-from the citadel
-relieve and triangle, corbel arch |
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Treasury of Atreus, ca. 1300- 1250 BCE
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-tomb
-corbel arch -gold buried on bottom |
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Warriors Vase, ca. 1200 BCE
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Cookie cutter
Composite view |
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Cycladic
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Marble structures are the major surviving artworks of the Cycladic Islands during the third millennium BCE, but little is known about their function.
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Minoan
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The so-called Old Palace period (ca. 2000-1700 BCE) on Crete saw the construction of the first palaces on the island, but the golden age of Crete was the Late Minoan period.
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Happy people,
Liked music No war depictions |
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Mycenaean (Late Helladic)
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The Mycenaeans, who with their Greek allies later waged war on Troy, were already by 1600-1500 BCE burying their kings n deep shaft graves with gold funerary masks and bronze daggers inlaid with gold and silver.
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Corbeled Arch
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A projecting wall member used as a support for some element in the superstructure. Also, courses of stone or brick in which each course projects beyond the one beneath it. Two such walls, meeting at the topmost course, create a corbeled arch or corbeled vault.
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Relieving triangle
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In Mycenaean architecture, the triangle opening above the lintel that serves to lighten the weight to be carried by the lintel itself.
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Tholos
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A temple with a circular plan. Also, the burial chamber of a tholos tomb.
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Krater
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An ancient Greek wide-mouthed bowl for mixing wine and water.
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