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Georgiopoulou, Vasiliki (2025)

Looking at the painted plaster of Knossos: A visibility analysis on 2D and 3D representations of decorated space.

Master thesis | Archaeology (MA/MSc)

My thesis, titled "Looking at the Painted Plaster of Knossos: A Visibility Analysis on 2D and 3D Representations of Decorated Space", explores the interplay between architectural space and the visual perception of the painted plaster images of two selected study cases from the Bronze Age site of Knossos. Among the plethora of painted plaster decoration of the Knossian palatial complex, I chose to focus on the only figurative decorations found in situ, that of the West Entrance and the Throne room complex, dating back to the mid-15th century BC. To provide a comprehensive evaluation of my two study cases, I approach them as part of the Knossian ‘artscape’, a new theoretical framework inspired by Tim Ingold’s ‘taskscape’, which views art decoration as part of the, constantly under construction, human environment. To reconstruct the visual integration of the paintings, I utilized new computational tools and conducted two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) visibility analysis.

prehestoric Crete

Knossos

wall paintings

visibility analysis

2D

3D

material archaeology

artscape

Author

Georgiopoulou, Vasiliki

Faculty

Faculty of Archaeology

Specialisation

Computational Archaeology

Supervisors

Tuna Kalayci

ECTS Credits

20

Evaluation

Recommended

Language

en