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...

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...

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...

The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something...

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...

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...

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...

Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

example of a distinctive type of large female terracotta figurine in Minoan art, presumably representing a goddess, but not thought to be cult images...

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...

The Minoan Moulds of Palaikastro (Greek: Μήτρες του Παλαιοκάστρου Σητείας, romanized: Mitres tou Palaiokastrou Sitias) are two double-sided pieces of schist...

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...

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...

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...

The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. It destroyed...

The Pylos Combat Agate is a Minoan sealstone of the Mycenaean era, likely manufactured in Late Minoan Crete. It depicts two warriors engaged in hand-to-hand...

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...

Museum of Athens, where many remain on display. Many are regarded as Minoan art, while others are thought to have been made on mainland Greece. The pottery...

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....

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...

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...

Cycladic art The ancient Cycladic culture flourished in the islands of the Aegean Sea from c. 3300 to 1100 BCE. Along with the Minoan civilization and...

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...

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...

The Arkalochori Axe is a 2nd millennium BC Minoan bronze votive double axe (labrys) excavated by Spyridon Marinatos in 1934 in the Arkalochori cave in...

late Bronze Age. In many portable forms of art, and for painting, the Mycenaeans relied on the Minoan art of Crete, which probably sometimes reached them...