Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

(FIG. 4-23) revealed a magnificent civilization far older than the famous vestiges of Classical Greece that had remained visible ...

today represent dead women or fertility figures or goddesses is still debated. In any case, the sculptors took pains to emphasiz ...

Minoan Art During the third millennium BCE, both on the Aegean Islands and on the Greek mainland, most settlements were small an ...

the hero Theseus was said to have battled with the bull-man Mino- taur. According to the myth, after defeating the monster, Thes ...

Egyptians, who painted in fresco secco(dry fresco), the Minoans coated the rough fabric of their rubble walls with a fine white ...

Minoan Art 87 T oday, ships bound for the beautiful Greek island of Santorini, with its picture-postcard white houses, churches, ...

MINOAN POTTERY The love of nature manifested itself in Crete on the surfaces of painted vases even before the period of the new ...

deity. The frontality of the figure is reminiscent of Egyptian and Near Eastern statuary, but the costume, with its open bodice ...

Although most of the figures conform to the age-old conven- tion of combined profile and frontal views, the sculptor singled out ...

Architecture The destruction of the Cretan palaces left the mainland culture supreme. Although this Late Helladic civilization h ...

age came to believe that the uncouth Cyclopes were responsible for these massive but unsophisticated fortifications. Would-be at ...

sive stones that form the walls and gate. Similar groups appear in miniature on Cretan seals, but the idea of placing monstrous ...

stone corbeled courses laid on a circular base to form a lofty dome. The builders probably constructed the vault using rough-hew ...

PLASTER SCULPTURELarge-scale figural art is very rare on the Greek mainland, as on Crete, other than the Minoan-style paint- ing ...

always dangerous to generalize from the fragmentary remains of an an- cient civilization. Nonetheless, life-size Aegean statuary ...

EARLY CYCLADIC ART, ca. 3000–2000 BCE ❚Marble statuettes are the major surviving artworks of the Cycladic Islands during the thi ...

5-1The Persian king Darius III, detail ofPhiloxenos of Eretria,Battle of Issus (FIG. 5-70), Roman mosaic copy of a painting of c ...

A ncient Greek art occupies a special place in the history of art through the ages. Many of the cultural values of the Greeks, e ...

Although the sculptures, paintings, and buildings discussed in this chapter were made and built all over Greece and in its many ...

Geometric and Orientalizing Periods 101 T he names of scores of Greek gods and goddesses were recorded as early as the eighth ce ...