Crimson & Indigo & White

Crimson is the Minoan double axe — the deep vivid crimson of the most symbolically powerful Minoan sacred object. The labrys: the labrys (λάβρυς — the double-headed axe — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively symbolically specific of all the Minoan sacred symbols — appearing in the most important positions in every Minoan palace complex, the most dramatically positioned and the most immediately symbolically loaded architectural element — framing doorways, painted on walls, and placed at the most important ritual positions) is the most immediately internationally recognizable and the most comprehensively documented single Minoan symbol — its name potentially giving rise to the most immediately famous Greek myth directly associated with Minoan Crete: the Labyrinth (from Greek: λαβύρινθος — literally 'the house of the double-axe' — the most specifically Minoan-architecture-inspired and the most immediately famous palace-complex-associated myth of the entire Greek mythological tradition — the mythological Labyrinth being the most immediately and the most comprehensively referential to the most complex and the most immediately impressive multi-story palace complex of ancient Knossos). The crimson labrys: the most characteristic color of the most important Minoan ceremonial labrys (the most specifically gold — but in the most abundant and the most immediately archaeologically represented form: the bronze labrys — the most typical Minoan ritual axe material — with the most characteristic oxidized-bronze-to-red surface color that approximates the most specifically deep vivid crimson of the most important Minoan ceremonial metalwork). Indigo is the Minoan sea fresco — the very deep blue of the most ancient Aegean fresco tradition. Minoan frescoes: the Minoan fresco tradition (the most immediately internationally beautiful and the most comprehensively color-preserved of all the Bronze Age Aegean wall painting traditions — using the most precisely prepared true fresco technique — buon fresco — in which the most carefully selected mineral pigments — the most specifically copper-based blue-green, the most vivid red-ochre, the most immediate cadmium-yellow, and the most luminously pure lime-white — are applied to the most carefully prepared wet lime plaster ground — creating the most permanently bonded and the most immediately color-fast painted surface of any Bronze Age Mediterranean wall painting tradition) is the most immediately impressive and the most comprehensively documented of all the pre-Hellenic Aegean art traditions. The Akrotiri frescoes: the most immediately internationally famous single surviving group of Minoan-influenced frescoes — the Akrotiri site frescoes (the most immediately perfectly preserved Bronze Age wall paintings in the eastern Mediterranean — preserved under the most deep and the most completely anaerobic Minoan eruption volcanic ash deposit at Akrotiri on Santorini — approximately 1628-1600 BCE — the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively color-preserved Bronze Age fresco paintings outside of Knossos) include the most immediately internationally famous: (1) The Flotilla Fresco (the most immediately impressively scaled and the most comprehensively narratively complex of all the Akrotiri frescoes — a continuous frieze approximately 7 meters long depicting the most specifically Aegean Bronze Age maritime scene: a fleet of ships traveling between two towns — the most immediately impressively painted Aegean maritime narrative in any Bronze Age art tradition); (2) The Boxing Children fresco (the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively athletically specific fresco from Akrotiri — depicting the most specifically Minoan-influenced contact sport in the most immediately impressive and the most dynamically painted of all the Akrotiri figural scenes). White is the Naxian marble — the pure luminous white of the most ancient Cycladic sculptural stone. Naxian marble: the marble from the island of Naxos (the most immediately large and the most most comprehensively marble-quarried of all the Cycladic islands — the most extensively used sculptural stone of the most ancient Greek world — from the most ancient Cycladic figurines — approximately 3200-2300 BCE — the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively abstract of all the pre-Hellenic Aegean sculptural traditions) is the most specifically and the most immediately pure white of all the Aegean island marble varieties — the specific crystalline white of the most finely grained Naxian marble being simultaneously the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively translucent of any Greek island marble — directly inspiring the most ancient and the most immediately internationally famous Cycladic figurines (the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively abstract prehistoric sculptures of any Mediterranean culture — the most specifically female and the most immediately mysteriously simplified figurines of the Cycladic Bronze Age).