. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . flowersseem to have been detached by the passing breeze; a natural touch whicho-oes beyond mere decorative art. This detail is so surprising that wemight be tempted to ascribe it to accident rather than design, but treesswayed by the wind are seen on a seal impression of this Period.^ The lilies themselves bear a certain affinity to those of the lily vasesto be described below, but in a freer style. Near this group were foundother fresco remains
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . flowersseem to have been detached by the passing breeze; a natural touch whicho-oes beyond mere decorative art. This detail is so surprising that wemight be tempted to ascribe it to accident rather than design, but treesswayed by the wind are seen on a seal impression of this Period.^ The lilies themselves bear a certain affinity to those of the lily vasesto be described below, but in a freer style. Near this group were foundother fresco remains showing graceful olive foliage. Another painted stucco PL VI is from the drawing by Mr. H. Bagge Candia Museum and is now a botch-work,of the fragments as originally reconstituted. It ^ See p. 697, Fig. 519, from the Templewas broken up in the course of transport to the Repositories. FrescoFrag-mentswith Spikeletsof Reedsand OliveSprays. 538 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. fragment (Fig. 389) depicts a flowering olive spray, already cited ^ as supply-ing a more naturalistic parallel to the conventional olive foliage with alter- **j»fx#.*:^ •;, ^. mi# m & * »
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