Minoan Realities

Approaches to Images, Architecture, and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age
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What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society such as Neopalatial Crete? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each... Read More

What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, 2009 at the University of Heidelberg.

The papers presented in the workshop are collected in the present volume. They provide different approaches to this complex topic and are aimed at a better understanding of the formation, role, and perception of images and architecture in a very dynamic social landscape. The Cretan Neopalatial period saw a rapid increase in the number of palaces and 'villas', characterized by elaborate designs and idiosyncratic architectural patterns which were themselves in turn generated by a pressing desire for a distinctive social and performative environment. At the same time, a new form of imagery made its appearance in a broad spectrum of objects and spaces which were 'decorated' with meaningful motifs chosen from a restricted and repetitive pictorial repertoire. This standardized repertoire indicates the confi guration of a coherent pictorial program which was implemented in several social situations. The present volume is intended not only for specialists in Minoan culture but also for readers who are interested in the social dimension of images and architectural remains and especially in issues relating to their materiality, use and perception.


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Publisher
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Title Part
Numéro 5
Author
Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Ute Günkel-Maschek,
Collection
AEGIS
Language
English
BISAC Subject Heading
HIS042000 HISTORY / Europe / Greece
Onix Audience Codes
06 Professional and scholarly
CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
3385 Antiquité
Audience
Archéologues
Title First Published
10 January 2013
Original Language
English

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Publication Date
10 January 2013
ISBN-13
9782875581006
Extent
Main content page count : 188
Legal Copyright Date
D/2012/9964/39
Code
87297
Dimensions
21 x 30 x 1.1 cm
Weight
494 grams
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39.00 €
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Publication Date
10 January 2013
ISBN-13
9782875581013
Extent
Main content page count : 188
Code
87297PDF
ONIX XML
Version 2.1, Version 3

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Contents


Diamantis Panagiotopoulos and Ute Günkel-Maschek
Introduction: The Power of Images and Architecture 1
Clairy Palyvou
Wall Painting and Architecture in the Aegean Bronze Age: Connections between Illusionary Space and Built Realities 9
Quentin Letesson
'Open Day Gallery' or ‘Private Collections’? An Insight on Neopalatial Wall Paintings in their Spatial Context 27
Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Aegean Imagery and the Syntax of Viewing 63
Fritz Blakolmer
Image and Architecture: Reflections of Mural Iconography in Seal Images and Other Art Forms of Minoan Crete 83
Ute Günkel-Maschek
Spirals, Bulls, and Sacred Landscapes: The Meaningful Appearance of Pictorial Objects within their Spatial and Social Contexts 115
Jan Driessen
Chercher la femme: Identifying Minoan Gender Relations in the Built Environment 141
Maud Devolder
Labour Costs and Neopalatial Architecture: A Study of the Buildings at Klimataria-Manares and Achladia and the Palace at Gournia 165
Contributors 181