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'HOUSE OF FRESCOES': PANEL WITH MONKEYS 449
On which side was the indebtedness ? That the animal figures of the
Theban tomb were executed by a specially skilful Egyptian artist is most
clearly shown by the remains of a design depicting an ibex brought to bay
by a hound, and 'posed with tragic dignity, as if on its native crags'. On
Kenamon
paintings.
Fig. 263. Animals surrounded by Desert Belts of Sand and Shingle :
from Tomb of Kenam6n.
the other hand, not only does this method of thus isolating in encircling
1 , .,..,, , . . , ., , . ° . Minoan
bands individual animals seem to be without a parallel in Egyptian Art,1 sugges-
but the background shows a yellow tone, in place of the customary violet, "okm"
an exceptional circumstance, which Mr. Davies is led to account for by the t(?ne oi
use of a vivid yellow clay such as was affected by early Italian artists.2 ' It
Mr. Davies, loc. cit., p. 21, thus describes the desert surface where naturally there would
these scenes : ' The artist had to depict a tract be more vegetation. The Minoan practice of
of desert crowded with game of various kinds, encircling scenes with rock borders, from the
which has been browsing here on the spare edges of which plants spring, certainly supplies
clumps of bush. Nile gravel he depicts as a close analogy. The plant springing from the
pink or ruddy ground, dabbled with blue and pebbly border to the left of Fig. 263, b, may
red for its brown and grey pebbles.' Mr. Davies be compared with those of the fresco fragments
considers that ' as that colour would ill set off (M. M. Ill b) from the lustral area of the South
the figures, he has placed each animal or group House (see above, p. 379, Fig. 211, a and b),
in a detached island round which the desert and the bush behind the hare much resembles
runs, the hard outlines of the free spaces being that of the ' Partridge Frieze ' compared above
relieved by planting vegetation round them, as with Cretan dittany (see above, pp. ill, 112,
if each beast had taken refuge in a patch of Figs. 50, 51).
bush'. In the text I have preferred the view - Op. cit., pp. 22, 23.
that the isolated spaces answer to hollows in
II. H h
On which side was the indebtedness ? That the animal figures of the
Theban tomb were executed by a specially skilful Egyptian artist is most
clearly shown by the remains of a design depicting an ibex brought to bay
by a hound, and 'posed with tragic dignity, as if on its native crags'. On
Kenamon
paintings.
Fig. 263. Animals surrounded by Desert Belts of Sand and Shingle :
from Tomb of Kenam6n.
the other hand, not only does this method of thus isolating in encircling
1 , .,..,, , . . , ., , . ° . Minoan
bands individual animals seem to be without a parallel in Egyptian Art,1 sugges-
but the background shows a yellow tone, in place of the customary violet, "okm"
an exceptional circumstance, which Mr. Davies is led to account for by the t(?ne oi
use of a vivid yellow clay such as was affected by early Italian artists.2 ' It
Mr. Davies, loc. cit., p. 21, thus describes the desert surface where naturally there would
these scenes : ' The artist had to depict a tract be more vegetation. The Minoan practice of
of desert crowded with game of various kinds, encircling scenes with rock borders, from the
which has been browsing here on the spare edges of which plants spring, certainly supplies
clumps of bush. Nile gravel he depicts as a close analogy. The plant springing from the
pink or ruddy ground, dabbled with blue and pebbly border to the left of Fig. 263, b, may
red for its brown and grey pebbles.' Mr. Davies be compared with those of the fresco fragments
considers that ' as that colour would ill set off (M. M. Ill b) from the lustral area of the South
the figures, he has placed each animal or group House (see above, p. 379, Fig. 211, a and b),
in a detached island round which the desert and the bush behind the hare much resembles
runs, the hard outlines of the free spaces being that of the ' Partridge Frieze ' compared above
relieved by planting vegetation round them, as with Cretan dittany (see above, pp. ill, 112,
if each beast had taken refuge in a patch of Figs. 50, 51).
bush'. In the text I have preferred the view - Op. cit., pp. 22, 23.
that the isolated spaces answer to hollows in
II. H h