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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 ...
English: Bronze age 'Flotilla' fresco from room 5, in the west house at the Minoan town of Akrotiri, Santorini, Greece Français : Fresque datant de l'âge de bronze dans la ville minoenne sur le site archéologique d' Akrotiri dans l'île de Santorin , en Grèce .
"Ship Procession" fresco, from Akrotiri. What is called landscape painting is found in both frescos and on painted pots, and sometimes in other media, but most of the time this consists of plants shown fringing a scene, or dotted around within it. There is a particular visual convention where the surroundings of the main subject are laid out as ...
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 ...
Springtime landscape in a Fresco from the Bronze Age, Akrotiri The "saffron-gatherers" The island was the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded history : the Minoan eruption , sometimes called the Thera eruption, which occurred about 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization . [ 6 ]
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Akrotiri Boxer Fresco; B. Bull-Leaping Fresco; L. List of Aegean frescos; M. ... Wall Paintings of Thera This page was last edited on 27 September 2012, at 20:41 (UTC
Probably the most famous fresco is the bull-leaping fresco. [26] 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.