WALL AROUND CASE B. The Ladies in Blue

Accession Number GB/1648/AJE/4/1/12/1/3
Year early 20th century
Dimensions 95 x 161 cm
Medium painting
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Painting of the Ladies in Blue fresco by Émile Gilliéron père. The fresco is heavily reconstructed, with the heads of the female figures entirely invented, with inspiration from the Miniature Frescoes.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, pp. 265-266, col. pl. iv

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 20