Miniature Crowd Frescoes from Knossos: A Topography of the World Seen

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JMA" target="_blank" >https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JMA</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jma.25521" target="_blank" >10.1558/jma.25521</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Miniature Crowd Frescoes from Knossos: A Topography of the World Seen

Original language description

This study discusses prevailing interpretations of the miniature frescoes from Knossos as depictions of some sort of ritual or ceremony, located topographically in Knossos’s Central and West Courts. It revises the question of the narrativity of Minoan frescoes, based on the interpretive approach developed by Alpers in her exploration of seventeenth-century Dutch art and ‘visual culture’. Applying Alpers’s insights for Minoan frescoes allows for an original interpretation based on a formal analysis of their non-narrative devices ofrepresentation, namely (1) vertical perspective, (2) map-like composition and (3) suppressed focalisation. The study demonstrates that once their representational strategy is recognised as non-narrative, it is no longer possible to interpret the subject theme of the Knossian miniatures by applying the frequently used narrative analytical category of ritual as a transformative ‘event’. Instead, the operation of these devices focuses our attention on the performative dimension of viewing as testifying to the knowledge of the land and societyand the specific way in which the Knossian miniature frescoes absorb their viewer into this performance.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

ISSN

0952-7648

e-ISSN

1743-1700

Volume of the periodical

35

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

"169–197"

UT code for WoS article

999

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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