"History of art rewritten"
"The history of art has been rewritten after archeologists
unearthed an astonishing 3,500 year old carving of an ancient Greek
battle, depicting human bodies in anatomical detail which was thought
way beyond the skill of Bronze Age artisans.
In 2015, the tomb of the so-called ‘Griffin Warrior’ was
discovered near the ancient city of Pylos, southwest Greece, containing
the remains of a powerful Myceneaen warrior and a treasure trove of
burial riches...
The
seal, named the ‘Pylos Combat Agate’ has been hailed as one of the
finest works of prehistoric Greek art ever discovered and may depict the
mythological war between the Trojans and Mycenaeans, which was told in
Homer’s Iliad hundreds of years later.
“What is fascinating is that the representation of the human
body is at a level of detail and musculature that one doesn’t find
again until the classical period of Greek art 1,000 years later."..
Researchers are baffled as to how ancient craftsmen were able to create the minute scene without microscopes.
“Some of the details on this are only a half-millimeter big,” added Prof Davis. “They’re incomprehensibly small.
More details at
The Telegraph.
"Researchers are baffled as to how ancient craftsmen were able to create the minute scene without microscopes."
ReplyDeleteSeems to me I read something in the last year or so about early craftsmen working in very fine detail to the point where it probably effected their normal vision.