The test will consist of three parts:

1. Slide Identifications: images shown individually or in pairs with specific questions on identifying characteristics and/or how they relate to the culture or chronological period. 25%

2. Short answers including terms identifications and recognition of specific styles, objects and sites. 25%

3. Essays. You will be given a selection of topics/questions, probably four,  from which you will answer two. The topics may consist of various objects, periods, styles, and media. 50%

Example: Using examples, discuss the similarities and differences among Attic Black Figure and Red Figure vase painting (This will require some combined knowledge of textbooks, bspace readings, and lecture material).

Dates:

You should be able to give a 10-25 year date range for important people, developments, and objects of the historical period. For the prehistoric phases you should know cultural period and/or century at least. The dates are provided on the word lists and/or in your textbooks.

Chronological Chart

Painting Media and Techniques:

• where painting occurs in the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age
• wall painting techniques of the Bronze Age
• vase painting techniques by period in the Bronze Age
• importance of major sites

Minoan Crete: images for review

• Early and Middle Minoan ceramic styles; evidence for wall painting
• main site Knossos--know the plan and basic elements of the palace; especially the functions
• Old Palace Period and New Palace Period vase painting styles and themes
  
• Wall painting--key themes: landscapes/seascapes, bulls and bull-leaping, religious themes and rituals, mother goddess
• evidence for contact with the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt (eg. bull-leaping painting at Avaris)

• figurines and painted elements
• Early and Middle Cycladic ceramic styles
  
• pottery styles and trends
  
• Thera--exceptionally well preserved site of Akrotiri--buildings. etc; wall paintings--style, location and themes

• Neolithic and Early Helladic ceramic styles; Lerna and the House of Tiles
• Middle Helladic: arrival of the Greeks, apsidal houses and the ceramic styles 
• Late Helladic: Mycenae shaft graves; Palace of Nestor at Pylos; foreign contact, esp. with Minoans
  art shows Minoan influence, esp. in religious scenes
• palaces: key sites Pylos, Tiryns, Mycenae; megaron unit the central part
  kingdom administration--Linear B tablets
• wall painting: themes and style in comparison to Minoan Crete--procession, architectural facades, hunting and battle scenes, large animals;
• pottery techniques and styles; their importance for chronology
• c. 1200 B.C. destructions and end of wall painting

• SubMycenaean ceramic style and relation to life at the time
  
• dark for us, dark for them?
• major characteristics of Iron Age periods and styles that reflect that
• Proto-geometric vase style and the innovations that created it
• know the vase shapes and what the most common ones would have been used for

Geometric-7thc.: images for review #1 and #2

• cultural history
  8th century renaissance
  colonies; writing rediscovered (from Phoenicians); rise of polis; burial scenes and mythology beginning to appear in Geometric vase-painting

  7th century orientalizing influence begins--in vase painting, textiles, sculpture etc., vases pick themes from Greek mythology
  

• vase-painting
  • geometric designs; silhouette figures c. 750; narrative art by 700
  • 700-580: proto-Attic vases show mythological scenes
• sculpture-- painting incorporated for free-standing and relief
• architecture--the development of monumental sacred architecture and its possible painted elements over time
  

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