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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.32.2
People
Emile Gilliéron or son, Swiss (1850 - 1924; 1885 - 1939)
Title
Priest King or Lily Prince (reproduction after a relief from the Palace of Knossos, Crete)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
19th-20th century
Period
Minoan period, Late Minoan IA
Culture
Minoan
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291564

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on relief plaster
Technique
Painted
Dimensions
219.71 x 129.54 cm (86 1/2 x 51 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.32.2
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Reproduction of Minoan relief fresco on plaster

Publication History

  • Jennifer Y. Chi, ed., Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans, exh. cat., Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Princeton University Press (New York and Princeton, 2017), p. 109, fig. IV-18

Exhibition History

  • Restoring the Minoans: Sir Arthur Evans and Elizabeth Price, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, 10/05/2017 - 01/07/2018

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