Mar 30, 2018 | Ancient, PoP Highlights
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...
Sep 24, 2015 | Ancient, PoP Highlights
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...
Jan 12, 2015 | Ancient, PoP Highlights
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...
