1. Aegean Art
Art that was created in the Grecian lands surrounding, and the islands within, the Aegean Sea.

2. Major Aegean Cultures
Cycladic
Minoans
Mycenaeans

3. The best-known art of this period are the marble figures
Cycladic Art
BCE
The best-known art of this period are the marble figures

4. Cycladic Art, Figure from Amorgos Marble figures were often buried with the dead. Narrowly defined type with surprising individuality.

5. Cycladic Art

6. Cycladic Art

7. Cycladic Art

8. Marble harpist on Keros

9. Cycladic Art

10. Minoan Art
2600 BCE – 1400 BCE
Bronze Age

11. Early Minoan Pottery
Early Minoan period ceramics were characterized by linear patterns of spirals, triangles, curved lines, crosses, fishbone motifs, etc.

13. Middle Minoan Pottery
naturalistic designs such as fish, squid, birds, and lilies were common

15. Late Minoan Pottery
flowers and animals were still the most characteristic, but the variability had increased

19. Royal Pendant at Mallia, Crete Minoan

20. Knossos Palace
Knossos Palace, is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture.

21. Palace of Knossos on Crete Minoan

22. Knossos

23. The Palace appears as a maze of workrooms, living spaces, and store rooms close to a central square.

24. Detailed images of life in the late Bronze Age are provided by images on the walls of Knossos Palace

25. Fresco from Knossos palace Minoan

26. Scene from Knossos palace Minoan

27. Throne Room in Knossos Palace Minoan

28. The Labyrinth and the Minotaur Minoean

29. Minoan Labyrinth Plaque

30. Minoan Minotaur

31. Mycenaean Art
1600 BCE – 1100 BCE
Quite unlike the Minoans, whose society benefited from trade, the Mycenaeans advanced through conquest

32. Tholos Tombs
The Mycenaeans buried their nobles in beehive tombs (tholos tombs): large circular burial chambers with a high vaulted roof and a straight entry passage lined with stone.

33. Exterior, “Treasury of Arteus,” Mycenaean

34. Interior, “Treasury of Arteus,” Mycenaean

35. The nobility were frequently buried with gold masks, tiaras, armor, and jeweled weapons

36. Mycenaean Art – Mask of Agamemnon

37. Other Death Masks…