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Reproduction of a fresco with a Griffin

Emile Gilliéron 

Period:
Late Bronze Age
Date:
ca. 1450-1300 B.C.
Culture:
Minoan
Medium:
watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 54 x 69 1/2 in. (137.2 x 176.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Dodge Fund, 1911
Accession Number:
11.37.4

This artwork is part of Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

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  • Description

    Excavated in 1900 adjacent to the Throne at Knossos.

    As early as 1900 Evans noted that the background included water plants and palm trees but the latter were left out of this restoration by E. Gillieron, pere. The palm trees were later included in a watercolor frontispiece by E. Gillieron, fils to the last volume of the Palace of Minos at Knossos. The flanking of the throne at Knossos by heraldic griffins remains one of the most powerful images from Late Bronze Age Greece.

    The original is in the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Crete

  • References

    Immerwahr, S.A. 1990. Aegean Painting in the Bronze Age. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 176, Kn no. 28, pl. 47-8.

    Evans, A.J. 1900. "The Palace of Knossos." The Annual of the British School at Athens 6:40.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1911. "Cretan Reproductions." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 6:110.

    Richter, G.M.A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. New York: The Gilliss Press, 30.

    Evans, A.J. 1935. Palace of Minos at Knossos. Vol. 4, pt. 2. London: Macmillan and Co., 908-15, figs. 884, 886, 895, pl. XXXII, XXXIII.

    Shank, E. B., and Costas Balas. 2003. "The MuSIS 2007 and its Application to the Throne Room Fresco at Knossos." In Metron: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by Karen P. Foster and R. Laffineur, 161-67. Liège: Université de Liège.

    Shank, E. B. 2007. "Throne Room Griffins from Pylos and Knossos." In Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw, edited by P.P. Betancourt, M.C. Nelson and H. Williams, 271-76. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press.

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