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The Late Bronze Age
c. 1500-1100 BCE

LATE MINOAN PAINTING


The "Toreador" Fresco
("Scene from bull sports")
from Knossos
LM I
Fresco (restored)
(Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete)

The "Toreador" fresco, so-called by Evans, was found in 1901 in the East wing of the palace in the Court of the Stone Spout.


Court of Stone Spout in 1902


"La Parisienne"
from Knossos
LM I
Fresco: height 94/5 inches
(Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete)


The Aghia Triadha Sarcophagus
from a tomb near Aghia Triadha
c. 1400 BCE
Painted limestone: height of scenes with figures, 6 inches
(Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete)

© Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe