AH 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Knossos, Discharging Arch, Lion Gate
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Chapter 4 study guide: true fresco- painting on lime plaster, wet, chryselephantine- fashioned of gold and ivory, cyclopean masonry- a method of stone construction, named after the mythical. Cyclopes, using massive, irregular blocks without mortar, characteristic of the bronze. Primary consists of marble statuettes in graves. Exemplifies the essence of the female form. Gaudily panted- jewelry, large eyes, heavily painted. This one comes from a grave, but whether it represents the deceased is uncertain. The sculptor rendered the female body schematically as a series of large triangles. Some of the parts were painted: bull-leaping. from the palace at knossos (crete), greece. ca. King minnos whose wife gave birth to a monstrous being- half human, half miotaur- under the palace there"s a labyrinth where young virgins are sacrificed to the miotaur. Built against and across a very low hill. Maze like qualities- people to think this is the origins of the story of the labyrinth.
