2019
/ Eternity Speaks / Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy /
The enduring beauty of this sarcophagus holds a mummy, preserving the living presence of a real person from over 5000 years ago.
/ Sphinx Line Up / Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy /
The head of a man, not a woman, was Egypt’s concept of a mythical sphinx. Strength and benevolence were the core qualities. Some experts believe that the figures were carved from living rock. The beast was “in the rock.”
/ Crocodile Glyphs / Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy /
The power and strength of a pharaoh are what a crocodile symbolized in ancient Egypt. Can you imagine that living crocodiles were pets, roaming around homes, sometimes wearing jewels?
/ Middle Ages in Stone / Minervois, France /
Starlings in Formation: Middle Ages Until Now / Minervois, France /
Built on top of a water source, constantly flowing from underneath the nearby Black Mountains, this 800-year-old stone church attracts birds to fly around it—and local family weddings, funerals, and celebrations of Christian traditions inside.
/ Leonardo Self Portrait / Royal Library, Turin, Italy /
Who can turn red chalk on paper into a masterpiece from 1512? Leonardo looks in our direction hundreds of years later and at future people like us hundreds of years from now.
What do you see in his eyes? Perhaps you or a friend, as well?
/ What’s in a face? / Plovdiv, Bulgaria /
A Thracian king’s iron hat, now with a silver face, connects us with a person and a culture known for extraordinary works in gold. The Thracians were mysterious people to the north of ancient Greece.
/ Inspirational Maison Carrée / Nimes, France, August 16, 2016
One of the best preserved Roman temples were dedicated to Gaius and Lucius Caesar, the grandsons and adopted heirs of Emperor Augustus. American president Thomas Jefferson was in awe of the structure. So he sketched it and modified it into the Capitol of Virginia. He considered architecture the structure of a nation.