FAH206H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reproducibility, Minoan Civilization, Knossos
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We measure against the scale of the human body. Cabinet of curiosities reducing the natural world into the size of a cabinet. Dollhouses time gets away from you when building something at a smaller scale a lady who made small models of actual real-life crime scenes. There"s no need to be maintained like large stage sets. Architect that model -> done for the client. Working and sketch models -> which is a rough idea. Prospective (heading towards) vs retrospective (design is all finalized afterwards) Multiples -> there"s power from its multiplication (when there"s many of them; there"s strength in numbers) Bronze figures not a lot of detail just features and their gender pretty expensive during that time since bronze is hard to get. There"s flexibility in its use -> could be carried or used in funerary rites or left behind at shrines or sanctuaries or buried with the dead.
