Kamares ware
Nota de aplicación
Middle Minoan pottery found mainly at Knossos, Phaistos, and the Kamáres cave sanctuary, for which it is named. It is characterized by a dark lustrous ground to which ornament is added in red and white, with sophisticated designs in curvilinear abstract patterns, and stylized plant, marine, and figural motifs. It often employed the distinctive compositional device of torsion, where the balance of opposing compositional forces was emphasized, for…