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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by xyyman: [qb] Don’t believe me? Anyone has the picture of the “Captain of the blacks” from Crete. The before and after shots? Also the “Bull rider” And “the three ladies”. I am on the road now so I can them dig it out. [/qb][/QUOTE][URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-47-4.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-47-4.png[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PUjQ9LENhIk/UXV3hrRtKzI/AAAAAAAAiH0/gqzRZAf-0nI/s1600/the+captain+of+the+blacks+knossos+fresco+minoan+crete.jpg[/IMG] [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-49-1.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-49-1.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/picture-51-1.html] [IMG]http://www.ephotobay.com/image/picture-51-1.png[/IMG][/URL] It is ironic, given his modern reputation as an out-and-out racist, that one of the most tendentious restorations of a Minoan fresco, carried out under his direction and partly to his bidding, actually introduced a pair of black African soldiers as major figures. Known by Evans as the "Captain of the Blacks" fresco, it was restored to show a Minoan warrior running ahead of two black comrades or subordinates. In fact the only evidence for the black soldiers is a handful of fragments of black paint, which need not have been from human figures at all. Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere, University of Chicago Press [/QB][/QUOTE]
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