VI. Aegean Civilizations
The Artistic and Material Cultures of the
“Sea in the Middle of the Earth”
DU1701 Periods of Art History I: from Prehistory to Trajan
Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D.
Cycladic cultures, c. 3200–c. 1050 BCE
Cycladic “folded-arm figure”, c. 2400 BCE, marble
Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu
Cycladic female figure, 1,49 m, 2800 – 2300
BCE, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Contents of a Cycladic grave from the
Island of Iralkia, c. 2600–2400 BCE
Marble head, Cycladic II, H: 25,3 cm, marble, 2700–
2500 BCE / Metropolitan Museum, New York
Marble head with painted vertical striations, Cycladic II, H: 25,3 cm, marble,
2800–2300 BCE, from Amorgos / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Thera (Santorini)
Drawing of the island with an active
volcano by Russian monk Barskij, 1745
The “Minoan” Eruption, between 1642 and 1540 BCE?
House of the Ladies
Western house
Xeste 3
c. 1600 BCE
House of the Ladies
Western house
Xeste 3
Knossos
Minoan cultures, 3000 – 1100 BCE
Aerial view of the
Palace at Knossos
“Bull-leaping” fresco, from the Palace at Knossos, fresco on stucco, c. 1450 BCE, 78,2 x 104,5 cm
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Bronze Group of a Bull and Acrobat, lost wax
bronze, 1600-1450 BCE, from Rethymnon, Crete
British Museum, London
Mycenae
Mycenian Civilization,
c. 1600 – c. 1100 BCE
Gold cup with relief, from Vaphio, Sparta,
Peloponnese, 1500 to 1450 BCE
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Tholos tomb, so-called
Treasury of Atreus,
Mycenae
c. 1600–1450 BCE