life in mycenae

Question 1

What were the majority of clothes made out of in Mycenaean times?

Answer 1

Wool, linen, and silk

Question 2

How was the colour yellow for clothing created?

Answer 2

Onion skins and saffron

Question 3

How was the colour red for clothing created?

Answer 3

Insect eggs and madder

Question 4

How was the colour blue for clothing created?

Answer 4

Indigo

Question 5

How was the colour purple for clothing created?

Answer 5

Shellfish ink

Question 6

What did women typically wear?

Answer 6

-Wrap around skirts which were colourful with an underskirt
-Blouses which were short sleeved and may not have covered the breasts
-Robes
-Cloaks
-Shawls
-Ornate headbands
-Ankle bracelets

Question 7

What did men typically wear?

Answer 7

-Braided, short-sleeeved tunics with a robe over it
-Kilt-like gaements
-Loincloth underwear
-Leather boots
-Often barefoot

Question 8

Where do fresco pigments come from and what are they used for?

Answer 8

-Black > carbon > outlining other colours
-Blue > copper compound > backgrounds/water/sea animals/monkeys
-Red > hematite > male skin colour
-Yellow > ochre > lions/accent colours/hills
-Green > blue+yellow/malachite > accent colours/patterns/fine details
-White > lime plaster > female skin colour/goddesses/backgrounds/accent colours

Question 9

What is the quality criteria of a fresco?

Answer 9

1. Good use of individual colour
   2 Good use of contrasting colour
2. Fine detail
3. Use of pattern to create cohesiveness

Question 10

What are the strengths of frescoes?

Answer 10

-Realistic portrayal of life
-Useful information (clothing, hairstyles, makeup, activities)
-Interesting and vivid
-Shows conscious effort to organise images in stories

Question 11

What are the limitations of frescoes?

Answer 11

-May be inaccurate when broken and restored
-Lacks perspective and is therefore unrealistic and difficult to understand
-Not all colours survive so difficult to make out details