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Minoan Fresco Painting:
General Characteristics• Specific skin color conventions (male v. female)
• Genre scenes common, specific scenes unlikely
• Realistic nature scenes
• Extremely varied range of colors
• Wide variety of scenes and individual motifsindicate this as a major art form
• Absence of hunting and warfare scenes
• Two registers may be Postpalatial
• Underwater scenes
Minoan Fresco Painting
• Painted Stucco Relief Frescoes
• Frescoes with Human and Animal Representations
– Life-size
– Under Lize-size but not Miniature
– Miniature
• Formal Patterns or Heraldic Animals on a Large
Scale
• Decorated Floors
Painted Stucco Relief Frescoes
From near South Entrance to central
Court at Knossos
From above North Entrance Passage at Knossos
Palace at Knossos (Evans reconstruction)
Saffron gather fresco
Fragments of fresco as found by
Evans in 1900
Miniature Frescoes
Both from the “Early Keep” at northwest end of the central court at palace at Knossos
CMS I no 223: lentoid of red jasper
from Vapheio Tholos (LH IIA); Robed man
holds griffin on leash, on his wrist, a sealstone
CMS I no 145: from Mycenae, Minoan
Female (goddess?) flanked by heraldic
lions
Further evidence for bull-leaping sport
Ivory figurine of a bull-leaper
Votive figurine of bull with hanger-ons