the bull leaping bronze statue was found at knossos.
the bull leaping bronze statue was found at knossos.
where was the bull leaping bronze statue found?
knossos
section::::frescoes.









































frescoes are bright wall paintings there were very few images of war in fresco art, however, the city of knossos had many figural frescoes that could explain some form of war.









































bull leaping fresco from knossos is the most well known piece of artwork. as mentioned above, bull leaping was a sort of activity minoan men did as a past time and it showed the interaction between the bull and man.









































section::::frescoes.:akrotiri.
warfare in minoan art
this object has been central to discussions of bull-leaping, since arthur evans used it as the basis for his reconstruction of the mechanics of the leap: the leaper grabs the bull's horns, executes a back flip onto the bull's back and then dismounts. as john younger has pointed out, although this reconstruction has become part of bull-leaping in the popular imagination, comparatively few minoan depictions show exactly this schema. the majority show the leaper diving over the bull's horns onto the back.









































section::::bull-leaping.:size of ancient minoan bull leaping bulls.
minoan bull-leaper