Archives: Ancient
Michelle Stuart on Maya Art
They are simple yet complex, erotic yet spiritual, wildly designed yet perfectly rendered to fit both the scale of the object and the place in architecture.
Tony Robbin on the Painter of Pech Merle
25,000 years ago an artist who looked a lot like you and me (except without the haircut and the Uniqlo clothes) climbed down 150 feet below the surface of what is now called France…
Dennis Congdon on La Pittura di Giardino
La Pittura di Giardino (The Garden Fresco in the Villa di Livia), Circa 30 - 20 BCE Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome Italy On my second trip to Rome I came upon the frescoes of Livia’s Garden Room, an experience for which I was, to say the least, unprepared. The pale...