Louis Émile Emmanuel Gilliéron (1850–1924), often known as Émile Gilliéron père to distinguish him from his son, was a Swiss artist and archaeological draughtsman best known for his reconstructions of Mycenaean and Minoan artefacts from the Bronze Age. From 1877 until his death, he worked with archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann, Arthur Evans and Georg Karo, drawing and restoring ancient objects from sites such as the Acropolis of Athens, Mycenae, Tiryns and Knossos. Well-known discoveries reconstructed by Gilliéron include the "Harvester Vase", the "Priest-King Fresco" and the "Bull-Leaping Fresco".
Photographed c. 1915
Two replica Vapheio cups made by Gilliéron's company
Gilliéron's reconstruction of a fresco from Tiryns, reconstructed as showing a man leaping over a bull
Gilliéron's recreation of the Minoan fresco known as "Ladies in Blue", Knossos, re-restored after an earthquake by Gilliéron fils in 1927.
Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age.
Arthur Evans
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