Mycenaean Art: Frescoes, Gold and Pottery of Mycenae

Mycenaean Art: Frescoes, Gold and Pottery of Mycenae

Mycenaean art is the art of Bronze Age mainland Greece, seen at its richest at Mycenae, the leading centre that gives the whole civilization its name. It gathers goldwork, wall frescoes, painted pottery, carved gems, ivory and worked bronze into one confident style. The shaft graves of Mycenae yielded gold funerary masks, inlaid daggers, cups … Read more

The Mask of Agamemnon: Mycenae’s Golden Face

The Mask of Agamemnon: Mycenae's Golden Face

The Mask of Agamemnon is a funerary mask of beaten gold and the most famous single object ever recovered from Mycenae. It shows a bearded man’s face with closed eyes, a straight nose and finely worked ears, all hammered from one sheet of gold. Heinrich Schliemann lifted it from a shaft grave in the citadel … Read more