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List of Aegean frescos


List of Aegean frescos is a list of Minoan, Mycenaean, and related frescos and quasi-frescos (not completed before the plaster dried) found at Bronze Age archaeological sites on islands and in and around the shores of the Aegean Sea and other relevant places in the western Mediterranean region. In cases where one civilization encroaches on another or a mixture of civilizations is present, both names are used. These frescos were primarily murals. Few murals of the times have survived on the walls. Rather, the majority of frescos were reconstructed from flakes of fallen plaster and stucco. They are not the originals, but are facsimiles of originals. Often considerable artistic license has been exercised in the reconstruction. More than one reconstruction may exist, and more than one name have been assigned. The medium in all cases is plaster for interior walls, stucco for exterior walls. Often exterior frescos were in relief. Frescos can never be dated more precisely than the period in which they were painted. No names of painters have survived from the Bronze Age. Due to the necessity for extensive restoration, individual styles are typically not discernible, except those of the restorers; however, some scholars have assigned a school or painter name to a name fresco. These are not generally accepted.


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