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59o FULLY DEVELOPED 'LENTOID' STYLE
whatever the form of the seal. But to subordinate the design to the field
marks a decline in true artistic spirit. The reserve shown by leaving parts
of the background free so as throw into relief the principal theme of the
enoravino-—finely illustrated by the waterfowl group above referred to J—
The filling-in methods that
itself answers to a higher aesthetic standard
we have to deal with in the fully developed ' lentoid' style really represent
a return to the more primitive usage, such as is illustrated by the steatite
prism seals of Early Minoan date.
From the clay seal impressions of the late palatial deposits at Knossos,
described in the succeeding Section, it will be seen that the fully developed
'lentoid' style was in general vogue by the close of L. M. II.
1 See p. 492, Fig. 426, and Suppl. PI. LIV, m.
Fig. 588. Cornelian Lentoid.
whatever the form of the seal. But to subordinate the design to the field
marks a decline in true artistic spirit. The reserve shown by leaving parts
of the background free so as throw into relief the principal theme of the
enoravino-—finely illustrated by the waterfowl group above referred to J—
The filling-in methods that
itself answers to a higher aesthetic standard
we have to deal with in the fully developed ' lentoid' style really represent
a return to the more primitive usage, such as is illustrated by the steatite
prism seals of Early Minoan date.
From the clay seal impressions of the late palatial deposits at Knossos,
described in the succeeding Section, it will be seen that the fully developed
'lentoid' style was in general vogue by the close of L. M. II.
1 See p. 492, Fig. 426, and Suppl. PI. LIV, m.
Fig. 588. Cornelian Lentoid.