Work: Toreador Fresco, from the Palace of Minos, Knossos.
The fresco was painted around 1400 BCE, and depicts a young man performing what appears to be a handspring or flip over a charging bull. Two young women flank the bull. (We know the sexes of the stylized figures by the way they are painted—women’s skin is usually much lighter than men’s in ancient Greek art.) Archaeologists and anthropologists have studied the Bull-Leaping Fresco for.