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wildbrush's art.to.day - you entered my world of art history -
Comparative
Advancing Art History
of Pigments and Mediums
in European and Asian Cultures
PIGMENTS, PAINTING, SCULPTURE IN B.C. HISTORY:
- MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATIONS
AEGEAN SEA
7000 B.C., AEGEAN, Crete is the lost and found department of the Mediterranean. The current circled Crete and dropped off lost sailors. These settlers exported wine and olive oil, became sea traders and started the Minoan Empire.
6500 B.C., Flint and copper was mined at Catal Huyuk, in Asia Minor, a Turkish culture.
4000 B.C., MINOAN, Aegean Sea, the Pre-Crete. The Crete civilization was awesome. The two, three or four storied Palace of Cnossus had running water, flush toilets, and the original underground beehive corbel vault, the first curved ceiling.
2000 B.C., Homer said there were ninety cities on this little unfortified island during this peak, their paintings were similar in tone to Egypt's, including the front facing eyes on profile heads. There were no large sculptures to be found on Crete. Crete's frescoes had better shading then Egypt's, they also had 3/4 views of people in everyday scenes. Their ceramic fired paint was iron based.
By this year in history, bronze was being made all over the Mediterranean.
1000 B.C., MINOAN, Red lips and eye shadow were reflecting taste from Egypt. Woman wore bare breasted fashions, which is why probably no painting examples are to be found, they were all destroyed, as being pagan, or just stolen.
The SUMERIANS taught the Minoan's how to smelt bronze from copper and tin. Lead and sandaraca (sandracca)was the protective paint. Homer mentions a red cart he saw in a courtyard, lead red.
The later Mycenaean Age on the mainland was only the afterglow of this great culture.
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