Vintage 925 Silver Brooch Pin Scene of Ancient Greek Minoan Bull-Leaping Fresco

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Vintage 925 Silver Brooch Pin Scene of Ancient Greek Minoan Bull-Leaping Fresco.
Archaic Ritual.
Tarnished, Not cleaned.
13.73 grams
The info below regarding the Bull-Leaping Fresco is from Nat Geo & Wikipedia
The most famous image of bull-leaping is probably the Bull-Leaping Fresco from the palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece. The
fresco
was painted around 1400 BCE, and depicts a young man performing what appears to be a handspring or flip over a charging bull. Two young women
flank
the bull. (We know the sexes of the stylized figures by the way they are painted—women’s skin is usually much lighter than men’s in ancient Greek art.)
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Bull-Leaping Fresco
Greek:
Ταυροκαθάψια (Taurokathapsia)
Artist
Unknown
Year
1450 BC
Type
Fresco
Medium
Stucco
panel with scene in relief
Dimensions
78.2 cm × 104.5 cm (30.8 in × 41.1 in)
Location
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
,
Heraklion
, Crete
Owner
Hellenic Republic
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. It shows a
bull-leaping
scene. Although they were
frescos
, they were painted on stucco
relief
scenes. 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 subject is common in
Minoan art
, one of a number 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
. There he calls the several frescos "The Taureador Frescos."
[1]
There are more fragments than are included in the famous reconstruction, and it is generally thought that there were several bull-leaping scenes. A proposed reconstruction by M. Cameron has four very similar scenes, each with a left-facing bull and three human figures, one upside-down over the bull's back, and then one at each end, the ones at the front holding the bull's horns.
[2]
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