images collected by Julia Cybele Lansberry
The "Maison carrée" at Nîmes exemplifies the vitality of the treasured past ... its continuity in our generation and numberless generations to come. The artisan's hand, two thousand years past, reaches beyond the threshold of the modern age, even as Classical arts helped to rekindle the humanist spirit after a long, dark night. Perhaps this is the inner meaning of the Divine Feminine; the Awesome Presence of the Ancient Mother, as long as Her children shall live, breathe, hope, dream, and create ...
del Castagno: The Cumaean Sibyl, c.1450.
Titian: Venus with a Mirror, 1555.
Pellegrini: The Chariot of Aurora, 1715.
Cabanel: Naissance de Venus, 1863.
Rossetti: Astarte Syriaca, 1877.
Whittier: Princess from the Land of Porcelain, 1864.
Alma-Tadema: The Year's at the Spring, All's Right with the World, 1902.
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Rembrandt: Juno, 1665.
Klimt: Hygieia, 1907.