Bull Leaping Fresco is a 78.2 cm × 104.5 cm stucco found at the
Minoan palace of Knossos,
Greece from around 1450 BC. Parts of the work has been destroyed throughout time, but it has been fixed by modern restorations. It depicts a bull in the middle with a human leaping upside down on the bull's back, another human is gripping the bull's horns on the left, and a third human is standing and holding its hands in the air on the right.
Tropes:
- Color-Coded Characters: The one man is depicted with dark skin and the two women with pale skins, a tradition in Minoan art.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: There are two females and two males. Each woman is shown in either left or right of the work, and in the middle there are one man and one bull.
- No Title: If it ever had an original name, it is lost to time.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: As was Minoan fashion, both the male and female figures are depicted topless and only in loincloths.
