"Grandstand Fresco" (after a wall painting at Knossos, Crete)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1926.32.44
People: Emile Gilliéron, Swiss (1850 - 1924)
Title: "Grandstand Fresco" (after a wall painting at Knossos, Crete)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: early 20th Century
Places: Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Crete, Knossos (Crete)
Culture: Minoan
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/291769

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Watercolor on paper
Technique: Painted
Dimensions: 35.56 x 117.48 cm (14 x 46 1/4 in.)
framed: 48.3 × 130.8 × 1.9 cm (19 × 51 1/2 × 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
Accession Year: 1926
Object Number: 1926.32.44
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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), pp. 66, 70, fig. III-9
Kathrin Müller, "Methodische Zugänge zu ,Kulträumen' der minoischen Palastzeit" (2022), Logos Verlag Berlin, pp. 228-229, fig. 115a; p. 366

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

Verification Level

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