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The wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or Thera). They are regarded as part of Minoan art , although the culture of Thera was somewhat different from that of Crete , and the political relationship between the two islands at the ...
Part of the same band as the Monkeys Fresco in the House of the Frescos; hence, also called the Monkeys and Blue Birds Fresco. Boar-hunt Fresco Wild boar-hunt fresco: Tiryns: Mycenaean: LH IIIB (13th century) Athens: Three spotted hounds with collars harry a boar in a field of plants while its head is being pierced from in front by a spear held ...
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Buried and unseen for nearly 2,000 years, a series of striking paintings showing Helen of Troy and other Greek heroes has been uncovered in the ruined Roman town of Pompeii.
The most impressive discovery is an expansive fresco that depicts the Greek legend Helen of Troy, painted on the high walls of a large banqueting hall that was thought to be owned by a high-status ...
Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Antique fresco from Pompeii. Timanthes of Cythnus (Greek: Τιμάνϑης) was an ancient Greek painter of the fourth century BC. The most celebrated of his works was a picture representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, in which he finely depicted the emotions of those who took part in the sacrifice; however, despairing of rendering the grief of Agamemnon, he represented ...
The fresco is a mythological scene of a series embellishing the open gallery of the building, a series never completed which was inspired by the "Stanze per la giostra" of the poet Angelo Poliziano. In Greek mythology , the beautiful Nereid Galatea had fallen in love with the peasant shepherd Acis .