Painting #003 - Ancient Greece (1)

The Knossos Palace on Crete island Knossos 

- is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site (1500-1450 BCE) on Crete 
- is considered Europe's oldest city

Dolphin fresco (retouched)
A marine scene featuring a school of dolphins composed symmetrically 
with fish in the interstices and clusters of sponges around the periphery

Bull-leaping
- fresco (80 cm height) c.1500 BCE
- Knossos

An acrobat on a bull with two female acrobats on either side.

Akrotiri is a prehistoric settlement on the Greek island of Santorini (ancient name Thera). The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption about 1627 BCE and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of fine frescoes and many artworks. The site has been excavated since 1967.

Fisherman

- fresco (147 cm height) 1650 BCE
- Museum of Prehistoric Thera (Santorini)

Nude male figure holding two strings of fish, one in each hand.

Source: Wikipedia

EXTRA:

"Mycenaean lady" / Dame de Mycènes (13th C BCE)

- fragment of fresco from Acropolis of Mycenae

Head, torso of female with long tresses, headband, dress with full bodice,
wearing necklaces, wristlets, holding up or accepting a necklace in the right hand. Also on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

Alexander Mosaic  

A Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii (an alleged an imitation of Apelles' painting), it depicts a battle between the armies of Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia.

Alexander Mosaic (House of the Faun, Pompeii)
- mosaic (272 × 513 cm) c.100 BC
- National Archaeological Museum (Naples)

(Detail:) Alexander the Great