Medusa Face Wine Stopper Cats 10 x 11 inches

10 x 11 inches

creating another generation of readers

and John Singer Sargent alongside selections from James’s novels

5"L X 6"W X 9"H

Its purpose is to publish texts on significant pre-twentieth-century artworks in the European tradition that have recently come to light or about which new research is underway

Medusa Face Wine Stopper Cats 10 x 11 inchesIn 1892, an ancient villa was discovered just north of Rome, near the villa of Augustuss wife, Livia. Several well preserved mosaic floors adorned the baths of the villa. Jack and Isabella Gardner inspected the mosaics in 1895 and purchased this floor in 1897. The delicate tracery of this mosaic resembles those made in Pompeii around 25 AD (the late second or third style), but brick stamps indicate that it was laid a century later, during the reign of