4 Sep. 2017 - 9.50-10.15 Pantelis KOMNINOS (Thessaloniki, Greece), The Narrativity in Aegean monumental Iconography during the Late Bronze Age.
Abstract
“The Narrativity in
Aegean monumental Iconography during the Late Bronze Age”
The Aegean
frescoes during the Late Bronze Age are a key part of the Archipelago people’s
material culture. Wall-paintings participate and form an overall ideology through
symbolism, motifs, patterns and narratives as well. The narrativity of the Aegean murals is given and multi-layered: It concerns collectivities, elements of social, religious and military life.
We can detect it in ritual representations, in depictions
of the real and imaginary world, in burial practices. Certainly, narrativity activates and gives meaning to space, converting it from space to place,
and in direct or indirect connection with its use. Wall-paintings act as a visualization of the signified, through
which collective identities "are built" in characterizing Aegean
people, differentiating and / or connecting them with other cultures of the
Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age.
