This photo, taken in 1976, shows a painted wall in the Minoan palace at Knossos on the island of Crete. These are just two of many wall paintings adorning the enormous Minoan Palace that once stood there. The Minoans covered the walls with a mixture of mud and straw, then thinly coated with lime plaster, and lastly with layers of fine plaster. The Minoans had a distinct painting style with shapes formed by curvilinear lines that add a feeling of liveliness to the paintings. The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, flourishing
This photo, taken in 1976, shows a painted wall in the Minoan palace at Knossos on the island of Crete. These are just two of many wall paintings adorning the enormous Minoan Palace that once stood there. The Minoans covered the walls with a mixture of mud and straw, then thinly coated with lime plaster, and lastly with layers of fine plaster. The Minoans had a distinct painting style with shapes formed by curvilinear lines that add a feeling of liveliness to the paintings. The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, flourishing from c. 3000 BC to c. 1450 BC until a late period of decline, finally ending around 1100 BC.
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