Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 300
, whose flying tressessuggest violent action. It had possibly belonged toa scene from the bull ring. Another fragment foundhere shows a smaller female figure nearly nude,springing from above and seizing the horns of a 1 See frontispiece. MURAL PAINTING 277 galloping bull, like the Tiryns figure. It… … Palace at Knossos over the back of a charging bull, to whose horns,in front, clings a girl in boys costume, while anotherfemale toreador behind, in similar deshabille, standswith outstretched arms as if to catch her, as she istossed over the monsters back. The whole is a tourde force of the Minoan…
Painting, Greek · Painting, Greco-Roman
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