Fresco Dolphins

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Savanna Yelling
Mr.Waller
World History 1 Honors
1 November 2017

    Fresco is the Italian word for "fresh." Fresco painting is painting on a moist surface with pigment
mixed with water or a limewater mixture. They are water-based paintings usually done on walls. The paints are created by grindings powder in water. Then they are dried and set with plaster on the wall and are permanent.  Minoan painters adapted this from Greece. Minoans traveled from Crete to Israel to Egypt.
Work Cited
   
    
     Dictionary.com. (2017). the definition of frescoes. [online] Available at: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/frescoes [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].
     Encyclopedia Britannica. (2017). fresco painting. [online] Available at: https://www.britannica.com/art/fresco-painting [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].
     Quatr.us. (2017). What is Fresco Painting? History of Art - Quatr.us. [online] Available at: http://quatr.us/arts/fresco.htm [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].





Knossos

Size
About 20,000 square meters
Location
Crete, Greece
Use
Storage, Retaining Minotaur
Evacuation
Abandoned after destruction in 1375 BC


Work Cited

     Sakoulas, T. (2017). Knossos. [online] Ancient-greece.org. Available at: http://ancient-greece.org/archaeology/knossos.html [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].
     Science, L. (2017). Knossos: Palace of the Minoans. [online] Live Science. Available at:          https://www.livescience.com/27955-knossos-palace-of-the-minoans.html [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].

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