Tag: Crete
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Michael Zeno Diemer, TALL SHIP OFF CRETE 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #218
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete. It was once the centre of the Minoan civilisation (c.…
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Jose Garcia Ocejo, The Minotaur and the Maiden – 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #8
Jose Garcia Ocejo (b.1928) The Minotaur and the Maiden, c. 2015 Oil on wood 64 x 52 cm / 25.1 x 20.4 inches Private collection In Greek mythology, the Minotaur is a mythical creature portrayed in Classical times with the head of a bull and the body of a man, or, as described by Roman poet Ovid,…
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