4-7: palace Knossos (Crete), Greece
1500BCE 10" high fragment
wet fresco:color added to wet walls
chemically bonded when dry work quickly
decorated palace walls depicted Minoan life
La Parisienne Minoan woman/goddess
similar to Mesopotamian/Egyptian art
profile head large frontal eye
4-8: palace Knossos (Crete), Greece
1500BCE 2'8" high w/border
wet fresco ceremonial scene acrobatic
bull-leaping no setting stylized shapes
suggest moving beings
both: women always-light skin
men always-dark skin common in Minoan
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