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This is a list of Minoan, Mycenaean, and related frescos and quasi-frescos (not completed before the plaster dried) found at Bronze Age archaeological sites on islands and in and around the shores of the Aegean Sea and other relevant places in the Eastern Mediterranean region. In cases where one civilization encroaches on another or a mixture ...
Excavated from 1967 to 1974, the wall paintings provide a crucial window into Santorini's history, depicting the early Aegean world as a highly developed society. Of all the findings unearthed at Akrotiri, these frescoes constitute the most significant contribution to present-day knowledge of Aegean art and culture.
Other well-known sections are the female fragment known as La Parisienne (from the "Camp Stool Fresco"), [27] and the Prince of the Lilies (mostly restored), both from Knossos, and the Akrotiri Boxer Fresco, but there are many others, both from Crete itself and related Aegean sites. Procession fresco from Knossos; of the 23 figures, most feet ...
Fresco (pl. frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.
Cycladic art is known for its simple figurines carved in white marble; Minoan art for its palace complexes with frescos, imagery of bulls and bull-leaping, and sophisticated pottery and jewellery; and Mycenaean art for its lavish metalwork in gold, imagery of combat and massively-constructed citadels and tombs. These are very different arts ...
Minoan fresco at Phylakopi on Milos. Phylakopi (Greek: Φυλακωπή), located at the northern coast of the island of Milos, is one of the most important Bronze Age settlements in the Aegean and especially in the Cyclades. The importance of Phylakopi is in its continuity throughout the Bronze Age (i.e. from mid-3rd millennium BC until the ...
List of Aegean frescos; M. Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a; P. La Parisienne (fresco) Prince of the Lilies; T. Throne Room, Knossos; W. Wall Paintings of Thera
Bull-leaping fresco now in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, the duplicate shown here is fixed to the wall of the upper throne room Dolphins fresco. The palace at Knossos used considerable amounts of colour, as were Greek buildings in the classical period. In the EM Period, the walls and pavements were coated with a pale red derived from red ...