Art
The collection of Minoan art is in the museum at Heraklion, near Knossos on the north shore of Crete. Minoan art, with other remains of material culture, especially the sequence of ceramic styles, has allowed archaeologists to define the three phases of Minoan culture (EM, MM, LM) discussed above.
Since wood and textiles have vanished through decomposition, the best preserved, and so most easily learned from, surviving examples of Minoan art are Minoan pottery, the palace architecture with its frescos that include landscapes, stone carvings, and intricately carved seal stones.
Read more about this topic: Minoan Civilization
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“Art thou innocent, art thou immoral,”
—Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)
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—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)