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

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dc.contributor.author Valentinová, Lucie
dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-12T13:15:26Z
dc.date.available 2023-07-12T13:15:26Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.issn 0952-7648
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10195/81232
dc.description.abstract 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 of representation, 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 society and the specific way in which the Knossian miniature frescoes absorb their viewer into this performance. eng
dc.format p. 169–197 eng
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, volume 35, issue: 2 eng
dc.rights pouze v rámci univerzity cze
dc.subject Svetlana Alpers eng
dc.subject map-like composition eng
dc.subject Minoan miniature frescoes eng
dc.subject ritual theory eng
dc.subject suppressed focalisation eng
dc.subject vertical perspective eng
dc.subject Svetlana Alpers cze
dc.subject Mínójské miniaturní fresky cze
dc.subject kompozice podobná mapě cze
dc.subject teorie rituálu cze
dc.subject potlačená fokalizace cze
dc.subject vertikální perspektiva cze
dc.title Miniature Crowd Frescoes from Knossos: A Topography of the World Seen eng
dc.title.alternative Miniaturní fresky z Knóssu: Topografie viděného světa cze
dc.type article eng
dc.description.abstract-translated 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 of representation, 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 society and the specific way in which the Knossian miniature frescoes absorb their viewer into this performance. cze
dc.peerreviewed yes eng
dc.publicationstatus published eng
dc.identifier.doi 10.1558/jma.25521
dc.relation.publisherversion https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JMA
dc.identifier.obd 39888002


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