"The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best" - Jean-Paul Satre

In this section 44 pieces of Minoan and Etruscan studies were recreated on stone or marble surfaces with oils to replicate the ancient method of painting directly onto drying plaster.

Between 1650 and 1400 BCE, the effects of an earthquake brought the Minoan civilisation to an end, so that much of what we know about them today is from what was found preserved by ash in Santorini or buried fragments in Crete. It appears Minoans had a different understanding of their external world than we generally hold today, in that their culture was not only highly civilised, but encouraged a sense of 'best' from all of its people. By painting on public buildings frescoes of both men and women equally contributing, they affected a unified sense of self belief.

Similarly, the Etruscans painted scenes of celebration in their tombs, symbolising a harmonious balance which they believed continued in their death as it had in their lives.
Showing smiling sculpted lifelike portraits of the deceased reclining on couches, as if attending a forever lively banquet in the afterlife, the joy of being, for them, never ceased to exist.


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