Mycenaean back and forth, so that they, too, had a new and closer contact with Egypt (which may help to account for their sudden prosperity toward 1600 B.C as well as for the very quick development of natural is an involuntary wall painting at that time).
The close relations between Crete and Mycenae, once established, were to last a long time; toward 1400 B.C., when Linear B script began to appear, the Mycenaean’s were the rulers of Crete, either by its people. In any event, their power rose as that of the Minoans declined; the great a structure of historical importance of Mycenaean architecture were all built between 1400 and 1200 B. C. Apart from such details as the shape of the support, Mycenaean design owes little to the Minoan tradition. …show more content…
The palaces did, however, include modest shrine, as in Crete. What gods were worshiped there is a matter of debate; Mycenaean religion surely included Minoan element but also influences from Asia Minor, as well as goddess of Greek origin received from their own forebears. But gods have and in conflict way of merging or exchanging their identities, as that the religious images in Mycenaean art are extremely hard to interpret. What, for instance, are we to make of the extremely beautiful little group unearthed at Mycenae in 1939 the style of the piece its richly curved shapes and easy, flexible body movements still a repetition of Minoan art, but the subject is strange indeed. Two kneeling women, closely united, tend a single child; whose is he? The natural interpretation would be to regard the figure on the right as the mother, since the child clings to her arm and turns toward her; the second woman, whose left hand rests on the other’s shoulder, would then be the grandmother. Such three-generation family groups are a well-known subject in Christian art, in which we often find St. Anne, the Virgin Mary, and the child Christ combined in similar
The close relations between Crete and Mycenae, once established, were to last a long time; toward 1400 B.C., when Linear B script began to appear, the Mycenaean’s were the rulers of Crete, either by its people. In any event, their power rose as that of the Minoans declined; the great a structure of historical importance of Mycenaean architecture were all built between 1400 and 1200 B. C. Apart from such details as the shape of the support, Mycenaean design owes little to the Minoan tradition. …show more content…
The palaces did, however, include modest shrine, as in Crete. What gods were worshiped there is a matter of debate; Mycenaean religion surely included Minoan element but also influences from Asia Minor, as well as goddess of Greek origin received from their own forebears. But gods have and in conflict way of merging or exchanging their identities, as that the religious images in Mycenaean art are extremely hard to interpret. What, for instance, are we to make of the extremely beautiful little group unearthed at Mycenae in 1939 the style of the piece its richly curved shapes and easy, flexible body movements still a repetition of Minoan art, but the subject is strange indeed. Two kneeling women, closely united, tend a single child; whose is he? The natural interpretation would be to regard the figure on the right as the mother, since the child clings to her arm and turns toward her; the second woman, whose left hand rests on the other’s shoulder, would then be the grandmother. Such three-generation family groups are a well-known subject in Christian art, in which we often find St. Anne, the Virgin Mary, and the child Christ combined in similar