Sculpture "Minoian bull's head"-museum replica, handmade artificial casting

Minoan culture, Mycenaean culture

The Cretan art is also called Minoan Art according to the fabulous king Minos.

Cretan-Minoic art is Crete's art of around 2900-1600 BC. BC (Minoian art) and the Mycenaean art of Crete and the Greek mainland of around 1600-1100 BC. Chr., In Crete only up to 1200 BC. BC

in the shaft graves of Mycenae, which in the 14th and 13th centuries BC The German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered significant testimonies of this culture. A preserved certificate is the lion gate from the 13th century BC. BC,

the works of art made of ceramics have survived the turmoil of the thousands of years: magnificently decorated vases. The snake goddess (around 1500 BC), is famous, a faience statuette that has been recovered from the rubble of the palace sanctuary of Knossos. Bronze vessels of the time were mostly used in the household. But daggers and swords and armor were also made of bronze at the time.

The jewelry of the Cretan-Mycenaean women was made of gold, mountain crystal, lapislazuli, ivory, faience and glass.