ἕν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδέν οἶδα
All I know is that I know nothing
Allegedly said by Socrates
So true, 30 years in Education, and I still feel like a kindergarten student, curious and inquisitive, questioning, interested, prying …
Fra Angelico’s story of the Passion
Fra Beato Angelico, 1395-1455Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary with Martha, and Saints Mark, Dominic and Longino, 1440-1442, Fresco, Convent of San Marco, Cell 42, Florence, Tuscany, ItalyPhoto Credit - Petros Dimitrakopoulos, 2025 At the Convent of San Marco in Florence, behind the plain door of a small monastic ce ...
Codex Purpureus Rossanensis
Rossano Gospels or Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, The parable of the ten virgins, 6th-century, Illuminated manuscript Gospel Book, Diocesan Museum, Rossano, Italyhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_des_Evangeliars_von_Rossano_002.jpg Few works of early Christian art capture the interplay of narrative, sym ...
Pink Sweet Peas II
Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887-1986Pink sweet peas II, 1940, Oil on Canvas; 101.6×76.3 cm, Private collectionhttps://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162953797243474&set=g.5907271979 In 1940, Georgia O’Keeffe painted Pink Sweet Peas II, a luminous oil on canvas that transforms a modest garden flower into a comm ...
April 2026 Newsletter
April 2026 🍃 April in Bloom Through Art 🍃 Dear Reader,As April unfolds, the world feels softer, brighter, and full of quiet possibility. This season of renewal invites us to pause and notice the details, shifting light, emerging colors, and the stories carried forward through human creativity. Art mirrors this ...
The Defense of the Homeland above All Else
Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek, 1814-1878The Defense of the Homeland above All Else, 1858, Oil on Canvas, 183 x 132 cm, National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens, Greece – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, February 18, 2024, ‘Meanings’. Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity to Today Exhibition, Acropolis ...
Roman Mosaic from the House of Euripos
House of Euripos, Floor Mosaic of the Four Seasons, 2nd-3rd century AD, Archaeological Museum of Mytilene, Greece – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, 2025 The first day of spring, March 20, 2026, arrives as it always has — quietly, persistently, with light lingering a little longer and the earth stirring back to life ...
Giovanni Bellini’s God the Father
Giovanni Bellini, 1434-1516God the Father, 1505-1510, Oil on Wood, 102x132 cm, Palazzo Mosca-Musei Civici, Pesaro, Italy – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, March 2023, (Exhibition: GIOVANNI BELLINI Influences Croisées at Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris) In Giovanni Bellini’s God the Father, the viewer encounters a qu ...
Late Antique Ivory Pyxis
Circular Pyxis with Mythological scenes, 5th-6th century, from Egypt, Ivory, 8.5 x 9.1 cm, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, USAhttps://art.thewalters.org/object/71.64/ Nestled in the collection of The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is a remarkable Ivory Vessel known as the Circular Pyxis, carved in Egypt during ...
Pelike with an Actor Dressed as a Bird
Red Figure Pelike with an Actor Dressed as a Bird, 430-420 BC, Attic red-figured Pelike, Hight: 20.3 cm, , Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University, GA, USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Figure_Pelike_with_an_Actor_Dressed_as_a_Bird At first glance, this small Attic pelike seems playful, an oddly dressed fi ...
Enheduanna the first named author in history
Disk of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon, on one side is a panel wherein is carved in relief a scene of sacrifice, on the other an inscription of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, Akkadian period, ca. 2300 BC, Alabaster, Diameter 25 cm, Depth: 7 cm, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropolog ...
Philip Wilson Steer’s Jonquil
Philip Wilson Steer, English, 1860-1942Jonquil, 1890, Oil on Canvas, 91.5x91.5cm, Private Collectionhttps://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/blogs/art-photography/philip-wilson-steers-jonquil-will-lead-british-impressionist-art-sale?srsltid=AfmBOooN3TM25j_xhU_nVNGhK4y5qROs7_af7yFZ_Dpx-3wx8w8h2N41 March marks the quie ...
March 2026 Newsletter
March 2026 Dear Reader,With the light slowly returning, March invites us to see the world with renewed curiosity. Art becomes a companion in this transition, connecting past and present, movement and meaning. Let this month’s selections guide you through narratives shaped by time, craftsmanship, and creative vision ...
Jean-François de Troy and the Myth of Apollo and Pan
Jean- François de Troy, French, 1679-1752Apollo and Pan, or The Judgment of Tmolus, Date unknown, Oil on Panel, originally a harpsichord lid painting cut into a rectangle, 87.5 × 154 cm, Private Collectionhttps://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collections-provenant-des-familles-cosse-brissac-dormesson-la-bedoyere/jean-fra ...
François Vase
Kleitias(painter) and Ergotimos(potter)François Vase, Side A (right) and Side B (left), large Attic volute krater decorated in the black-figure style, c. 570-565 BC, Height: 66 cm, National Archaeological Museum, Florence, Italy – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, April 2025 Discover one of the greatest masterpieces ...
The Dream of the Pomegranate
Felice Casorati, Italian, 1883-1963The Dream of the Pomegranate, 1913, Oil on Canvas, Palazzo Maffei, Verona Italy – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, September 2025 At first glance, The Dream of the Pomegranate feels hushed, almost suspended in time. A young woman sleeps in a meadow dense with wildflowers, her body ...
Ktisis
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, 500–550, with modern restoration, Marble and Glass, 151.1 x 199.7 x 2.5 cm, the MET, NY, USAhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/469960 Step into the symbolic world of Late Antiquity through this remarkable mosaic fragment portraying Ktisis, th ...