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Chapter 35 - The Frescoes

from Part VI - Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Translated by
Carl Knappett
Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

The remodelling of the knossos palace, following the arrival of the Mycenaeans, goes hand in hand with the implementation of a new wall painting programme. Some frescoes from the previous period could perhaps have survived. Others, probably damaged, were removed from walls (two dumps have been found) and replaced with new ones. Hence the chronological differences between specialists, with some thinking that the frescoes in place at the time of the 1370 bc destruction date to the Knossian Mycenaean occupation, while others imagine them to be frescoes from the Neopalatial period. The large Procession fresco is a case in point.

It is likely that there was continuity in the pictorial tradition at Knossos before and after 1450 bc. According to M. Cameron’s classification (Evely 1999), the fresco painters (Groups E and G) would be the successors of those who painted the Partridge fresco (see above, p. 190).

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 345 - 355
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Bietak, 2007: Bietak, M., Marinatos, N., Palivou, C., Taureador Scenes in Tell el-Dab’a (Avaris) and Knossos, Vienna.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brecoulaki, 2015: Brecoulaki, H., Davis, J., Stocker, S. eds., Mycenaean Wall-Paintings in Context. New Discoveries and Old Finds Reconsidered, Athens.Google Scholar
Evely, 1999: Evely, D., Fresco: A Passport into the Past – Minoan Crete through the Eyes of Mark Cameron, Athens.Google Scholar
Immerwahr, 1990: Immerwahr, S., Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age, University Park, PA.Google Scholar
Lang, 1969: Lang, M., The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia, II. The Frescoes, Princeton, NJ.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Long, 1974: Long, C., The Ayia Triadha Sarcophagus, Gothenburg.Google Scholar
Militello, 1998: Militello, P., Haghia Triada, I. Gli affreschi, Padua.Google Scholar
Morgan, 2005: Morgan, L. ed., Aegean Wall Painting: A Tribute to Mark Cameron, London.Google Scholar
von Rüden, 2011: von Rüden, C., Die Wandmalereien aus Tall Mišrife/Qaṭna im Kontext überregionaler Kommunikation, Wiesbaden.Google Scholar

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  • The Frescoes
  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.036
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  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.036
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  • The Frescoes
  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.036
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