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Art History
Art history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Writing System | Linear A and B |
| Pre Palatial Period | 3000 BCE |
| Old Palace or Proto palatial | 1900 BCE |
| New Palace or Neo palatial | 1730 BCE |
| Post Palatial Period | 1450 BCE |
| Dagger Blade | Excavated from Grave circle A of Mycenaens Citadel, Greece. 1500-1550 BCE |
| Rhyton | Ceremonial cup |
| Fresco | Cover wall in plaster/plastic. Paint it over when still wet. |
| Bull Jumping | New Palace Period. minoan. crete Greece. 1550-1450 Use of fresco |
| Bull Head Rhyton | New Palace Period. 1550-1450 BCE |
| The Harvester Rhyton | New Palace Period, Minoan. 1650-1450 BCE |
| Girl Gathering Saffron Croscus Flowers | Before 1630 BCE Minoan, Akrotiri on the island of thera Greece |
| Mycenae | 1600 BCE- 1100 BCE |
| Citadel at Mycenae Greece | occupied 1600-1200, late helladic |
| Thoth | Scribe |
| Tutankhamun (king tut) | 1332-1322, Dynasty 18, died at 19. Shown as Osiris |
| Ank | Cross with loop |
| Kneeling figure of Hatshepsut | 1473-1458 BCE Dynasty 18 New kingdom Egypt |
| Menkaure + Queen Khamerernerbty | Fourth Dynasty 2490-2472 BCE old kingdom, Giza, Egypt |
| Corbeled Vault from Tholos Tomb | 1300-1200 BCE ancient greece |
| Symposia | For men only on man's graves |
| Funerary Vessel (Krater) | 750-700 BCE Attica, Geometric, Greece |
| Formal Analysis | Careful description of what you see |
| Amphora | For women |
| Slip | Watered down particles of clay |
| Olpe (Pitcher) | 650-625 BCE Orientalizing or Corinthian. Corinth, Greece |
| Achaemenid Persian Roundel | 404-359 BCE Persian, Iraq |
| Ajax + Achilles playing a game | Exekias (potter and painter) Archaic, Greece 540-530 BCE |
| Sanctuary of Apollo | Delphi, 6th-3rd Century BCE |
| Cycladic Culture | 1st culture to boom in Aegean |
| Figures of a woman | 2600-2400 BCE Greece, made of marble. Meant to lay down. Burial objects. |