Holy families
I started by noticing similarities between two pictures. The one above is “The Virgin and Child with St Anne and John the Baptist”, the so-called Burlington House cartoon (a cartoon … Continue reading
The realm of Minos
Between 3500 and 1500 BC a very attractive and rather mysterious civilization developed and then vanished on the island of Crete in the southern Aegean Sea. In Greek myth the … Continue reading
Aphrodite, goddess of love and sex
An early statue fragment by an unknown 4th century BC master Aphrodité is the Greek god associated with love (and its various activities), and often referred to as Venus. Her … Continue reading
Astarte’s cornucopia and Pandora’s box
In the beginning was the Goddess. As far as we know (and apparently we don’t know much) the first widely spread religion was an adoration of the life giving force … Continue reading
