145 - Hunting minoan...

MINOAN / Translated by Google / Inspired from a clay tablet and a Minoan seal. Apart from the table where M124 Theseus kills the Minotaur, this is my second theme evoking the death of a mythical creature half-boar, half-lion. It becomes the artifact, in this case, as was often the case in the past, the lapidary, (in this case a true artist) he has about 3700 years, may be copied or wanted idealize * a boar giving it the appearance of a lion, a recurring theme in the archaic Minoan glyptics. We know that at that time, the lions and wild boars were present on the island. Helmets, covered with teeth of wild beasts have been found in tombs of warriors. Our hunter is carrying! Recall that Philhelm means "love the helmet." When the dog, he is an animal trained for fighting. We'll add more later in the Roman arena and on the battlefields of Greece. If there's one thing to remember this scene, it would be extraordinary representation of beings, men or animals, they were archaic, and this, in a surprising contemporaneity ? Another example of the singular representation of a lion, painting Minoan: M117.
* The engravings and paintings of the Middle Ages also include many animals more or less faithfully copied from other works. A famous example: In 1515, Albrecht Dürer drew a rhinoceros, he has never seen! Inspired by a simple written description, Dürer interprets his model and made a chimera: he adds on the back of the animal a little narwhal tooth, drawing the folds of her skin like the plates of the carapace of a shellfish, rendering the work of skin flaps like scales of a reptile or bird legs and invents patterns on the whole body. Despite its anatomical inaccuracies, the drawing made "super detailed" became very popular in Europe, and eventually be copied many times over the next three centuries.