Ladies in blue, fresco.
Palace ok Knossos.
Crete, Greece.
1550-1450 B.C. (Late Minoan)
Stairwell at Palace of Knossos
Palace of Knossos, Crete
Minoan
1,700-1,400 BC
Columns are smaller at bottom and get larger towards the top.
Bull Leaping
Palace at Knossos, Greece ca. 1450-1400 BCE
Knossos: the Disneyland of archaeological sites
Minoan wall painting at Knossos
Minoan Octopus Jar
Minoan art is my favorite pre-historic art because it still shows the primitive side of man, but also the artistic, imaginative, joyous side of man. There are no depictions of war or violence. Minoan art was pretty much art for art’s sake. It just comes to show that our primitive roots weren’t always savage and barbaric.
Minoan art was the creation of people with no problems or sorrows
Gisela Walberg in “Tradition and Innovation Essays in Minoan Art” (via darkfest)
Throne Room in Knossos
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