Ideas & Culture · 1700 BCE
Minoan Civilization at its Peak
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The Minoan palace culture at Knossos produced Europe's first sophisticated pictorial art: fluid, naturalistic frescoes of athletes, sea life, and flowing women that contrast strikingly with the rigid formalism of Egyptian contemporaries and prefigure the naturalism the Greeks would later call beautiful.
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