Aegean Art and Culture

Describe the following picture.

This work includes a griffin. This work is created using buon fresco. The blue figure is a monkey from a distant place, perhaps Africa or India. This work suggests connections to other societies east of the Aegean.

What is fresco?

It's a form of wall painting, very durable when created using wet pigment applied to wet plaster, created as buon fresco and fresco secco, and present in Minoan and Egyptian culture.

This is an example of ___________.

Cyclopean architecture