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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 ...
List of Aegean frescos; List of artworks by Ivan Albright; List of works by Sophie Gengembre Anderson; List of paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola; List of apostolados; B.
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.
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
Ancient Towers of the Aegean Sea North Aegean, South Aegean: 2014 iii, iv (cultural) This nomination comprises ten towers, built on the Aegean Islands and on the mainland, mostly in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. They were built in non-urban areas and served defensive purposes, sometimes as a part of wider fortification systems, as well as ...