Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals...
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The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it...
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The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something...
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The Minoan civilization in the Bronze Age (c. 3500–1100 B.C.E) was located on the island of Crete. Focusing on the palatial periods between c. 1900 and...
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Two Minoan snake goddess figurines were excavated in 1903 in the Minoan palace at Knossos in the Greek island of Crete. The decades-long excavation programme...
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materials produced in the Minoan civilization. They are an important part of Minoan art, and have been found in quantity at specific sites, for example in Knossos...
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Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and...
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Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete. In the absence of readable texts from most of the period, modern scholars...
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The Minoan Genius is a legendary creature that was common in the Minoan art of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization in ancient Crete. It is portrayed sometimes...
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Cycladic and Minoan cultures, which converged over time. Cycladic art is known for its simple figurines carved in white marble; Minoan art for its palace...
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Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio, US) The Minoan civilization of Crete is regarded as the oldest civilization in Europe. Minoan art is marked by imaginative...
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Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement. Minoan art Aegean art Ancient...
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Bull-Leaping Fresco (category Minoan frescos)
Late Minoan (LM) II. By that time the east stairwell, near which they fell, was disused, being partly ruinous. The subject is common in Minoan art, one...
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Poppy goddess (category Minoan art)
example of a distinctive type of large female terracotta figurine in Minoan art, presumably representing a goddess, but not thought to be cult images...
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Bull-leaping (category Minoan religion)
bulls is a motif in Middle Bronze Age figurative art, especially in Minoan art, and what are probably Minoan objects found in Mycenaean Greece, but it is...
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Tell el-Dab'a (category Minoan art)
Dynasty (early second millennium BC). The site is known primarily for its Minoan frescoes. Excavations in the area were started in 1885 by Édouard Naville...
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Hagia Triada Sarcophagus (category Minoan art)
The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus is a late Minoan 137 cm (54 in)-long limestone sarcophagus, dated to around 1400 BC or some decades later, excavated from...
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Knossos (category Minoan sites in Crete)
Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete. The site was a major center of the Minoan civilization and is known for its association with the Greek myth of Theseus...
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Wall Paintings of Thera (category Minoan frescos)
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...
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best in the world for Minoan art, as it contains by far the most important and complete collection of artefacts of the Minoan civilization of Crete....
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The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. It destroyed...
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Labrys (category Minoan art)
In ancient Crete, the double axe was an important sacred symbol of the Minoan religion. In Crete the double axe only accompanies goddesses, never gods...
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Kamares ware (category Minoan vase painting)
Kamares ware is a distinctive style of Minoan pottery produced by the Minoans in Crete. It is recognizable by its light-on-dark decoration, with white...
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Grave Circle A, Mycenae (category Minoan art)
double-axe display clear Minoan influences. At the time that the Grave Circle was built, the Mycenaeans had not yet conquered Minoan Crete. Although it seems...
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Hellenistic art Hellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with...
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Malia Pendant (category Minoan art)
found in a tomb in 1930 at Chrysolakkos, Malia, Crete. It dates to the Minoan civilization, 1800-1650 BC. The pendant was excavated by French archaeologists...
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Palaikastro Kouros (category Minoan art)
figurines in Minoan art, and the value of its materials may indicate that it was a cult image for worship, the only one known from the Minoan civilization...
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The Minoan bull leaper is a bronze group of a bull and leaper in the British Museum. It is the only known largely complete three-dimensional sculpture...
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Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods...
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Griffin (section Art in antiquity)
design of the griffin is a mock-up of Minoan art, but the inscription language is archaicized Greek, not Minoan (Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs). Citations...
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