Cretan society was built on the island of Crete, an area with good environmental resources. The population was primarily used in trade by sea. The architecture, painting and sculpture reflects an affluent and peaceful civilization. The palace of Knossos is a huge complex with a quadrangular plan, as the palace of Mari, fulfills every role of everyday life. Built on two floors of the various functions, the building has wood walls in stone, stuccoed and painted, which are double to allow air flow along the warehouses of pithoi , vases containing goods.
The complex hydraulic piping-sanitation is beautiful and vast. The size of the complex generated in the past the belief of the presence (uh ... a rhyme) of a maze and the Minotaur.
also painting and sculpture represent the wealth, peace and social life of the Cretan society, with natural tones and antique-related fees. Major depict floral and zoomorphic ornaments. The "bullfighting" is an example, showing two women and one man in a carousel with a bull. You can see the ancient canons of the profile, seen from the front of the eye and the colors of the fresco of dolphins pelle.Simile is where the colors of sea blue, gray belly with yellow lines of the conflict with the canons delifini archaic. A more elegant is in depinto dancers or ladies blue elegance sought by society in everyday life. There was no monumental sculpture but many statues of ivory and stone, as the goddess of snakes, which depicts a woman clothed with the draping of the time it takes two snakes in his hand. Very important was also the pottery, the geometric shapes, spirals and curves as well as floral motifs and animals and, subsequently, from the "marine style".
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