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Oil on canvas (appx. 22x30) of a darling little ‘working class girl’ with
a basket of ferns on her back, apparently many girls sold ferns door to
door, in Victorian England. She looks so sweet, I can’t imagine
anyone being able to say no to her. I felt that the artist did a great
job with his linear perspective in this picture.
MOSAIC PAVEMENT PANEL
I knew when I saw the pavement panel (pictured on left, appx 32x47)
that it had to be Roman. I took the picture on the right at the
restored home of Axel Munthe in San Michele – one of the most
beautiful places I saw on the entire visit. The floors, the tables, and
even some walls were patterned with this type of very detailed,
intricate mosaic work.
FRANCOIS YKENS, FLOWER STILL LIFE, 1644
This coffin from the Egyptian 26th dynasty, 664-525 BCE, (appx 72x30) was made for
Padiusir, of wood, gesso, and paint. The many colors symbolized things like immortality,
protective forces, and nourishment in the afterlife. The items pictured show what they
would use to wash the body and preserve body parts – amazing what they knew and
created so many hundreds and hundreds of years ago.