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Art and Religion in Thera : Reconstructing a Bronze Age Society

by: Marinatos, N.

Price: 19,00 EURO

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Category: Minoan / Mycenaean / Aegean / Mediterranean Bronze Age
Code: 8067
ISBN-13: 9789607310279 / 978-960-7310-27-9
ISBN-10: 9607310276 / 960-7310-27-6
Publisher: D. & I. Mathioulakis
Publication Place: Athens
Binding: Paper
Pages: 128
Book Condition: New

Art and Religion in Thiera : Reconstructing a Bronze Age

Author:Nanno Marinatos

This is a book about wall paintings and the function they fulfilled in the Bronze Age society of Akrotiri, Thera. The author discusses the frescoes in their architectural setting and in relation to the objects found in the rooms and buildings.

128 pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm


Contents:
Introduction : aims and methodology
The settlement and its significance
Architectural arrangements
The shrines
The Mesopotamian Temple State
Priesthood and nobility
Relations with Crete
The destruction of Akrotiri
The role of wall-paintings in the Bronze Age
Pictorial programmes : the West House
Public festivals on Theran frescoes
Initiation, vegetation and sacrifice : the Adyton Fresco of Xeste 3
Landscape scenes
Dressing the priestess : the Frescoes of the Ladies
Reconstruction of the ritual
Animals and humans : The Antelopes, Boxing and Children and Monkey frescoes
The Antelopes and Boxing Children, Monkey frescoes
Conclusions
The themes of the frescoes and pictorial formulae
The meaning of pictorial motifs
The order of society and the order of nature
Bibliography

 
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