Minoan Art
Year of lecture: 1957 - 1958
Abstract:
"The civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt never entirely passed out of the living memory of Western people. The civilisation of Ancient Crete, however, certainly did, and has only been recovered by archaeologists in recent years. The excavations of the ancient city of Troy in Asia Minor in 1871 by Heinrich Schiemann, led him to dig in Southern Greece at Mycenae. In the shaft graves which he exposed he discovered a great wealth of treasure much of it gold - as for instance, these gold cups. The style of this newly discovered art was quite unlike the art of Greece as we know it from the tenth century B.C. onwards. Where was the centre of this culture? Speculation led to the island of Crete as a likely centre. And in 1900 Sir Arthur Evans purchased the site of the city of Knossos and began to uncover a culture which he has called the Minoan culture."
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