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The cretense architecture. The cretense or manioc urban culture
was important. A.c was developed in the island of Crete throughout the second
millennium and during first half of first. The palace is its more important
artistic manifestation. The excavations of the palace of Cnossos have put in the
open a complex construction that allows speaking of labyrinth. It is used the
column and the flat dintelada cover.
Architecture in Crete. The art of the minoico world the great palaces began
to be constructed in the cities of Crete in the average minoico period, time at
which this seems to have been the most important center of the island. The
Minoans culture extended at that time to continental Greece. Then the city of
Cnossos, located in the north of Crete grew and, therefore more near the
Peloponnesian than the populations of the southern coast. By the end of the
minoico means were great earthquakes that caused damage and destroyed the palace
of Cnossos partly. This one was reconstructed in the increasing minoico period,
in whose beginning the era of greater cretense splendor is located.
Simultaneously they built the castle of Micenas and Tirinto, in which aqueous
military leaders resided who, in the beginning, were Versalles of Crete. The
cretense gave main importance to the column in their architecture. It is not
impossible that religious reasons have been combined with aesthetic and
technical the reasons so that thus outside, because it knows that, exactly with
the cult of the axe, existed in the island a cult of the pillar. Anyone is the
cause the architects of Minus multiplied in the palaces the typical cretense
columns that were of stone or fine wood, not very high, wider in the superior
part that in the base, and that often was based on light walls of brick or
rolled song.
The amphitheatre of Cnossos, next to the real palace, is
without a doubt the oldest building of that sort that is known: there spectacles
of dance, run sport matches and first of bulls were organized of which we have
the news. The main materials were the stones and the brick colored in lines that
were alternated with heavy wood beams to give greater solidity to the buildings.
Magnificent palaces, of style uniform and very similar characteristics were
raised in diverse places of Crete. The one of Cnossos, in which old restorations
and reconstructions are discovered was residence of the Minus or cretense
sovereign from century XVIII a.c according to opinion of some archaeologists.
Primitively it was fortified, but since the king dominated the owes princes and
he was only master of the island, towards century XVI a.c, the defenses were
dismantled. A simple irregular wall in which two doors were opened surrounded
the palace. Externally, its aspect did not offer interest some but, once
transposed the entrance, it had to present/display remarkable perspective. It
was not a single massive construction, but a set of bodies or pavilions
distributed on a vast surface in winch of a patio you center, whose measures
give an idea of the total extension of the monument. Within the enclosure they
were the regal bedroom, the gineceo, rooms of hearing, chapels, departments
reserved to the civil employees, dependencies by the servitude and the guard,
diverse deposits in which stored to export products such as the wine and the
olive oil, and also the artistic and industrial factories of the crown. The
minoica architecture did not have the solemn hugeness of the Egyptian temples
nor in shady military character of the asirios palaces. All the cretense art was
simple and amiable and reflected in certain way a joy to live.
Creto-Andina Architecture. The architecture that was developed in the
continental territory of old Greece and in the islands of the Aegean Sea belongs
to a series of Greek cultures, that preceded to the arrival (c. 1000 a. C.) of
the jonick and dórics towns. The minoica culture bloomed in the island of Crete
(between years 3000-1200 a. C.); its main legacy is the labyrinth
Palace of Minus in Cnossos, near the present Iraklion. In the Peloponnesian,
near Argus, they are the palace-strength of Micenas and Tirinto, and in Smaller
Asia the city of Troy-excavated in its totality by the German archaeologist
Heinrich Schliemann in the last quarter of century XIX. Micenas and Tirinto
consider two important samples of the aqua, referring civilization of epics
poems of Homer, the Odyssey and the Iliada. It see Civilization of the Aegean. |
