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Lily Fresco

Τ15
Plaster
Fragmentary, joined from fragments, restored.
Height: 187 cm. Width: 148 cm.
Amnissos
Villa
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙA period.:
1600-1500 BC:
Gallery:
XIII
Case:
148
Exhibition thematic unit:
Minoan wall paintings
The world of nature
Description
The Lily Fresco forms part of a larger fresco composition that decorated a room on the upper floor of the villa at Amnissos. It depicts a stylised, larger-than-life-size array of white lilies springing from within or in front of a stepped structure. This structure indicates an architectural arrangement of the space, probably a formal walled garden. The wall-painting technique is particularly interesting because it combines the typical fresco technique of Minoan wall paintings with the in cavo technique: the lily stems and flowers were scraped off up to the outline with a pointed tool in order to produce a groove that was filled with thick white paint.
Bibliography:
Marinatos, S. "Ανασκαφή Αμνισού Κρήτης." Πρακτικά της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας (1932): 76-94. Sch?fer, J. Amnisos. Nach den Arch?ologischen, Historischen und Epigraphischen Zeugnissen des Altertums und der Neuzeit. Berlin, 1992, 129-150. Shaw, M.C. "The Aegean Garden." American Journal of Archaeology 97 (1993): 661-685.
Author:
E. S.


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