Chapter Four

Chapters

1 - Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age
3 - Ancient Egypt
4 - Prehistoric Aegean
5 - Ancient Greece
9 - Etruscans
10 - Ancient Rome
11 - Early Christian
12 - Byzantium
16 - Early Medieval
17 - Romanesque
18 and 19 - Gothic
20 - Fifteenth Century Northern Europe and Spain
21 - Fifteenth Century Italy
22-High Renaissance
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Artist: Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos: Great Propylaeum
Location:Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Large rooms.

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Slide#2

Artist:Unknown
Title: Palace of Knossos
Location:Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Originally made of wood - replace with stone. Cushion black capitals - shaft is narrow at bottom and wide at top.

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Slide#3

Artist:Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos
Location:Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Some parts are three stories tall. Open, airy quality.

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Slide#4

Artist:Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos
Location:Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Staircase and columns. Cushion capitals. Light and open.

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Slide#5

Artist:Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos
Location:Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Exterior of throne room.

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Slide#6

Artist:Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos: Throne room of King Minos
Location:Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Wall murals, richly decorated; painted on wet plaster, landscape and animals.

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Slide#7

Artist:Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos: Throne room (reconstruction)
Location: Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: 2 animals in one.

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Slide#8

Artist:Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos (from east bastion)
Location:Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Distant view

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Slide#9

Artist:Unknown
Title:Palace of Knossos
Location: Crete
Date:1,300 BC
Description: Ruins. Bricks and stone stacked on top of eachother with very little mortar.

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Slide#10

Artist:Unknown
Title:Knossos: Great Warehouse.
Location:Crete
Date:?
Description: No military fortification or gate.

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Slide#11

Artist:Unknown
Title:Phaestos Principle Staircase
Location:Crete
Date:?
Description: Large Palace

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Slide#12

Artist:Unknown
Title:Jug with octopus motif
Location:?
Date:?
Description: Black on white. Undulating movement. Pots thrown on potter's wheel. Sea themes were common.

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Slide#13

Artist:Unknown
Title:Beaked Jug
Location:Crete
Date:1,800 BC
Description: Light on black. Golds liquid - pours. Found at Mt. Ida. Minerals used for color. Kamares style.

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Book #4-7

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Book#4-7

Artist:Unknown
Title:Toreador Fresco (the bullfight)
Location:Palace of Knossos, Crete
Date:1,500 BC
Description: Has been restored. Females - light skin, male - black skin. Profile form with frontal view of eyes. Some Egyptian influence. Bull may have been considered sacred.

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Book #4-7

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Book#4-7

Artist:Unknown
Title:Toreador Fresco
Location:Palace of Knossos, Crete
Date:1,500 BC
Description:

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Slide#16

Artist:Unknown
Title: Ladies of the Court
Location:Palace of Knossos, Crete
Date:?
Description: Fresco. Open shirts, black hair. Profile heads, frontal body and eyes.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:The Vase Carriers
Location:Palace of Knossos, Crete
Date:?
Description: Fresco. 2 dark colored males.

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Slide#18

Artist:Unknown
Title: Snake Goddess
Location:Crete
Date:1,600 BC
Description: Gold and Ivory. Female fertility symbol. Open shirt, ruffled skirt, holding snakes.

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Book #4-1

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Book#4-1

Artist:Unknown
Title:Cycladic figure
Location:?
Date:2,600 BC
Description: Female, long neck, stone, buried with dead, life size.

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Slide#20

Artist:Unknown
Title:Statuette of woman
Location:?
Date:3,000 BC
Description: Marble with white and yellow coloring. 24.75 ft. tall. Found buried.

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Book #4-20

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Book#4-20

Artist:Unknown
Title:Lion Gate
Location:Mycenae
Date:1,350-1,330 BC
Description: Part of walled area for protection. Post and lintel, corbel arch, triangle on arch with lions and column.

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Book #4-20

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Book#4-20

Artist:Unknown
Title:Lion Gate
Location:Mycenae
Date:1,350-1,330 BC
Description:

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Book #4-20

Slide#23 
Book#4-20

Artist:Unknown
Title:Lion Gate
Location:Mycenae
Date:1,350-1,330 BC
Description:

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Treasury of Atreus
Location:Mycenae
Date:1,330 BC
Description: Dromus and Portal. A beehive tomb.

Slide #25

Book #4-22

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Book#4-22

Artist:Unknown
Title:Treasury of Atreus (interior)
Location:Mycenae
Date:1,330 BC
Description: Circular base, didn't find anything inside. Stacked bricks. One of the largest structures in dome shape without support.

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Book #4-23

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Book#4-23

Artist:Unknown
Title:Funeral Mask
Location:Mycenae
Date:3,500 BC
Description: Found over body. Beaten Gold. From royal tombs. Repousse gold - pushed out from back.