These arts included painting, architecture, and music. Metalworkers made many things like weapons, mirrors, and jewelry. Architects designed things like temples and ziggurats. Music was also a big thing and brought joy to the gods and people. Things like the wheel and the plow made life in Sumer very different.
Other items found show the possibility of a trade relationship with Crete, such as Minoan-style seal stones and the shells of white snails which are a delicacy on Crete. Despite the evidence there is argument against this theory. Christos Doumas states that the art and architecture of Minoan style found on Thera may simply be a ‘superficial’ characteristic – nature-based pictorial motifs of Cycladic influence are favoured over the Minoan geometric style, supporting this argument. A popular argument on the society of Thera was that religion played an important part in the lives of Therans. Nanno Marinatos strongly believed that all Bronze Age Aegean frescoes were associated with religious or cult
Ancient Egyptians were known for their practices following death. Their stress of the afterlife and preservation of bodies are one of the main reasons we know so much about them as a people today. Upon visiting the Princeton Art Museum, the False Door of Ankh-Hathor caught my eye because of its use in tombs. False doors were a common architectural feature of the Old Kingdom (2686 BC - 2181 BC). Though there are some artistic variations among the layouts of the door, they all serve the same purpose: to help the spirit’s travel in and out of the tomb.
The Hans buried clay models of their homes and belongings, in their tombs. Models included details like little clay
The rest of the residences were made of wood. These civilizations also had some differentiation between each other, which defined their civilizations. In Mesopotamia, the
Minoan art used much of schematic style, which is mostly using human figures in a painting. Egyptians also used human figures in much of their art which is a forum of schematic styling. Until nearly 1500 BCE, art was comprised of mostly pottery and carvings. ‘The Palace Period” followed after 1500 BCE where Egyptians soon started painting on walls in tunnels, palaces, and barrier walls. Minoan art shows much of a natural and subtlety look unlike the ,majority of Egyptian art.
4.) Tao desperately wanted to become a Chosen One because Tao he wanted to paint on the caves. 5.) Two obstacles that Tao faced in becoming the Chosen One were that he was not born of a shaman, chief or leader and didn’t know his father so there was no elder to direct his actions. Also, he could not be a Chosen One since he had a bad foot.
During this time the people might have seen animals as very supreme creatures and placed them in ranks such as humans. Though we took that theory somewhere else and made animals a lower rank in our society. The kneeling bull is a very unique piece of art work that was justprobably as an instrument to play with. The statue is different from the instruments that we use today to make the sound of music for us. We certainly would not consider carving our instruments into animals as we see no relationship between the two.
Today, people believe that these sculptures, which were created for safety, are priceless artifacts that now follow all the thoughts and questions of the art world. The art that is known from many centuries ago is not the typical art that everyone knows today, it was all created in a similar way that everyone seemed to follow. Back in the ninth to the seventh century art was more difficult and took longer to complete. Artists ranged from carving out of thousand pound blocks of stone to little tiny 1 inch pieces of different metals to create one piece. They would chisel away and end up with an intricate and detailed piece of work that had a purpose and a meaning to the world.
This is because Linear A has not yet been deciphered, the meaning of the symbols such as the labyrs is unknown. Any reconstruction of Minoan religious practices are hypothetical. As knowledge of Minoan religion is incomplete, historians made inferences based on the objects uncovered and the context in which they were found, as a result interpretations often differ. Religion had a very important place in the lives of the Minoans. To the Minoans religion involved the natural world and provided an explanation of natural phenomena such as the seasons.