Cylinder vase depicting the Moon Goddess giving birth to rabbit, with Goddess O Ixchel as midwife Maya, Petén lowlands, Guatemala, Late Classic Period, AD 550-850 Earthenware: dark red, red, black, orange, and white on yellow-orange slip paint, 17 H x 10.5 D x 32.9 C...
Pech Merle Cave, 25,000 BCE, Village of de Cabrerets, Lot county, France 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, wending...
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...
