AP Art History

AP Art History

Chapter 4
Aegean Art

Study Guide



  • Compare Minoan pottery with the Mycenaean Warrior Vase.
  • Compare the Minoan figure Goddess With Snakes to the Cycladic Figures of Women in respect to medium, approach to figure and possible use.
  • Describe style and possible ritualistic uses of Minoan wall paintings. Compare Bull Jumping from Knossos to Egyptian Ti Watching Hippopotamus Hunt from the Tomb of Ti.
  • Discuss the structural elements of the monumental gateway to the Citadel at Mycenae.
  • Describe the layout and construction of the beehive tomb called the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae.

    Vocabulary
    Terms People/Places
    terra-cotta
    stylized
    sculpture in the round
    votive figures
    Linear A and Linear B
    dressed stone (ashlar masonry)
    rhytons
    buon fresco
    fresco secco
    repousse
    citadel
    ring wall
    relieving arch
    cyclopean construction
    Beehive tombs
    corbel vaulting
    megaron    		 Cycladic Islands
    Crete
    Knossos
    Sir Arthus Evans Mycenae
    Heinrich Schliemann
    Agamemnon
    Treasury of Atreus
    Citadel at Tiryns