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.