Minoan Bull leaping fresco painting from Knossos Crete , Museum copy for gift for her , Museum of heraklion crete



The Bull-Leaping Fresco, as it has come to be called, is the most completely restored of several stucco panels originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the palace at Knossos in Crete. Although they were frescos, they were painted on stucco relief scenes and therefore are classified as plastic art. They were difficult to produce. The artist had to manage not only the altitude of the panel but also the simultaneous molding and painting of fresh stucco. The panels, therefore, do not represent the formative stages of the technique. In Minoan chronology, their polychrome hues – white, pale red, dark red, blue, black – exclude them from the Early Minoan (EM) and early Middle Minoan (MM) Periods. They are, in other words, instances of the "mature art" created no earlier than MM III. The flakes of the destroyed panels fell to the ground from the upper story during the destruction of the palace, probably by earthquake, in Late Minoan (LM) II. By that time the east stairwell, near which they fell, was disused, being partly ruinous.



The theme is a stock scene, one of a few depicting the handling of bulls. Arthur Evans, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, owner of the palace and director of excavation, presents the topic in Chapter III of his monumental work on Knossos and Minoan Civilization, Palace of Minos.



The art work is made by keramin and resin , a plaster - polymer compound . Also is painted and drawn in hand.The tile have a surface craquelure effect . It is ready to hang, with a metal strip.We don't use alabaster ( or marble dust or magnesitis or sand ) which are VERY cheap materials with porous and poor quality.



All of our sculptures are high museum copies and not free designs that's why we mention from where copies come from.



Height :19 cm

Width : 35 cm

Weight : 1000 gr



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