Appliquéd Pottery Decoration and Stucco Relief Wall-paintings in Crete and Thera in the Second Millennium B.C. (original) (raw)

Appliquéd Pottery Decoration and Stucco Relief Wall-paintings in Crete and Thera in the Second Millennium B.C.

This study focuses on a special type of pottery and frescoes in Crete and Thera, both dated to a chronological span that starts at the end of the Middle Bronze Age and ends in the Late Bronze Age [Late Minoan (LM) II period]. The former is made of clay and the latter of plaster, and both of them bear plastic decoration, an element which makes them different from other objects in their respective classes. The appliquéd decoration on pottery from Crete and Thera on the one hand, and the stucco relief frescoes from both islands on the other, are not broadly discussed subjects. Moreover, the shared features of the two different forms of artistic expression have yet to be studied in detail.