#palaikastro

[arthistorywitches]

Cretan women circle dancing.  The one in center plays a lyre.  Palaikastro, Crete, 1300-1100 B.C.E.

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[pareisakti]

Πατητές και μακροβούτια του δύο μηδέν δεκαοχτώ Palaikastro,Crete|Greece 16.08.2018-18.08.2018

[deathlessathanasia]

The Palaikastro Hymn and the modern myth of the Cretan Zeus by Mark Alonge

[seenincrete]

Palekastro, table mountain and Minoan town of Roussolakos

[kirbyarthistory]

YOUNG GOD, Palaikastro (Crete), Greece

Fashioned from hippopotamus-tusk ivory, gold, serpentine, and rock crystal, the figurine is a very early example of chryselephantine (gold-and-ivory) sculpture, a technique the Greeks would later use for their largest and costliest cult images. The Minoans probably imported the ivory and gold from Egypt, the source also of the pose with left foot advanced, but the style and iconography are unmistakably Cretan. The work is a creation of a sculptor of extraordinary ability who delighted in rendering minute details of muscles and veins. The Palaikastro youth stood alone in a shrine and therefore seems to have been a god rather than a mortal. 

[surveyofwesternart1]

Palaikastro Youth

Young god (?), from Palaikastro (Crete), Greece, ca. 1500-1475 Ivory, gold, serpentine, and rock crystal, restored height 1' 7 1/2". Archaeological Musem, Siteia)

Palaikastro Youth is one of the masterpieces of Minoan art, the restored height of the statue is 1’ 7 ½”, which was created around 1500-1475 BCE, and was discovered between 1987 to 1990 at Palaikastro during British excavations. The statue was made of hippopotamus-tusk ivory, gold, serpentine and rock crystal. This is considered as an early example of chryselephantine sculptures (Gold and ivory as the material), which is a technique later contributed to largest and costliest cult images. Archaeologists estimate that material such as ivory and gold may imported from Egypt, which can be indicated the figure stands stiffly with left foot forward. The coiffure of the figure with central braid on shaved head indicates the age, which was displayed in a shrine and therefore it was portrayed as a god more than a mortal.

1. Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner’s Art Ages: A Global History. 13. Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011. 103-104. Print.

[museedart]

Octopus vase, Minoan, c. 1500 BCE, 28cm, from Palaikastro, Crete