Bull leaping Acrylic Print

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Image of the famous Minoan bull leaping fresco. It used to decorate a room at the Palace of Knossos, now detached and exhibited in Herakleion Museum. It was made during the second Millennium BC. (Neopalatial period). During the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Crete both man and woman held equal social status. The fresco depicts a man and two women participating in the same dangerous sport such as the bull-leaping. This was not a sport for the squeamish. A bull would charge headlong into a line of jumpers. Each jumper, when the bull was right on the top of them, would grab the horns of the bull and as the bull lifts forcefully shakes up his head, the athlete would then use the impetus to vault over the bull in an acrobatic somersault. The most difficult stunt, was while the bull running the athlete had to land on the bull's back and with another somersault to land on his feet behind the bull. In Minoan art always the men's skin is depicted reddish- brown while the women's is white. Image 2...

Andonis was born in Constantinople. I was awarded a B.A degree in Anthropology and History of Art from S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz, New York. I combine photography, archaeology, and nature. Recently, I reside in Greece, cooperating with publishing houses and magazines. I have published articles with photos covering from Neolithic, Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, Bronze Age, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic up to the Imperial Roman period. I have established an extensive image library covering such as archaeological sites, mythological landscapes, pottery, cult figurines, votive goods megalithic cyclopean structures, temples, oracle sites, metallurgical workshops, sculptures, jewelry, and various archaeological artifacts. The images can be...