Heraklion Gallery

Minoan Art. La Parisienne or the Minoan Lady

Minoan Art. La Parisienne or the Minoan Lady with the sacral knot at the back of the neck that seems to indicate that she is a priestess or even a goddess. The fresco uses the black colour for emphasizing the form of the eyes and red for the lips. It dates from the Neopalatial period, ca. 1400 B.C. The Herakleion Archaeological Museum. Crete

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Christ Bearing the Cross, c.1590 (oil and tempera on wood, gold ground)

3614050 Christ Bearing the Cross, c.1590 (oil and tempera on wood, gold ground)
by Zafuri, Nicola (fl.1489-93); 69.2x54.6 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Nicholaos Tzafouris was one of many icon painters working in the Cretan city of Candia (now Iraklion) when the island was under the control of Venice. Combination of Byzantine and Latin elements with a Greek inscription. One soldier wears contemporary Italian armour while that of the others is Byzantine or Cretan. ); Cretan, out of copyright

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View from space of the island of Crete

July 22, 2011 - View from space of the island of Crete. The rugged terrain of Crete includes mountains, plateaus, and several deep gorges. The largest city on the island, Heraklion, sits on the northern coastline.
Several smaller islands ring Crete. Two of the largest of these, Dia and Gavdos, are sparsely populated year-round. The western and central parts of Crete appear surrounded by quicksilver. This phenomenon is known as sunglint, caused by light reflecting off of the sea surface directly toward the observer

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