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Minoan art: the frescoes of the palaces!
The frescoes of the Minoan civilization are surprising. Initially the walls of the palace buildings were covered with stucco painted in ocher, blue or white without painted representations. Starting from 1600 BC artists began to decorate the reception rooms, both in palaces and in private homes, with frescoes.
The themes depicted are different: there are the great processions that glorify the royal majesty, as in the long corridor that exits the portico of the Palace of Knossos and leads to the staircase towards the first floor and the reception rooms.
It was crossed by the tributaries of Minos, king of Crete, and the frescoes on its walls aimed at glorifying the king.
The Prince of Lilies is represented with the painted stucco technique, which is halfway between painting and relief.
Together with the processional frescoes, the decorative compositions are of great importance, such as the griffins in the throne room and the large painted shields in the room with the double axes. However, most of the frescoes deal with court life together with the landscape theme (flowers and animals).
In 1967, an entire Minoan city was discovered on the island of Tera (Santorini), buried under the ashes of the volcano that erupted at the beginning of the 16th century BC, which gave us an extraordinary series of frescoes.
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