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Mixed media design of Cleopatra's long-lost temple

This beautiful panel of a garden scene was derived from the Prima Porta Frescoes from the so called House of Livia. These frescoes came from a basement room--where the Roman elite could keep cool in the hot summers while still enjoying this magical landscape of being outside. Some scholars have suggested that not all these plants and animals would be seen together at anyone time, therefore representing the Roman concept of cyclical time and the dawn of a new great age.

This design comes from a Minoan fresco in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The reconstruction was originally done by Emile Gilliéron.

This original painting is based on a real Ancient Greek coin, a silver Tetrobol of Hecatomnus from Miletus, dating to c. 380 BCE

Athena and Poseidon arguing, from a lithograph by Kaeppelin, 1884-1861.

Coptic textile design based on a plate in "Les tapisseries coptes" (1900)

Adapted from "Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l''histoire des religions et des moeurs de l''antiquité." (Paris : Leleux, 1844-1861) Lenormant, Charles (1802-1859)

Coptic textile design based on a plate in "Les tapisseries coptes" (1900)

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Attic red figure design adapted from an antique illustration in The Delphian Society The World's Progress, 1913

Design of the famous Vulci kylix, adapted from a sketch in William & Robert Chambers Encyclopaedia - A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, 1881

Adapted from "Greek Vase Paintings." (London Unwin 1894) Harrison, Jane Ellen.

Ancient Roman fresco Landscape from the Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase, currently in the MET

This design was derived from an antique print in Charles Mills Gayley, "The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art," 1893

This original watercolor is based on a real ancient coin from Punic controlled Spain, minted by the enduringly-famous Hannibal, c. 221- 218 BCE.

This design is adapted from The Delphian Society The World's Progress Part III, 1913.

Derived from an antique illustration in Charles Mills Gayley, The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, 1893

"The Birth of Erichthonius. Gaea, goddess of Earth ... presents the young Erichthonius to Minerva. Behind Minerva is Triton and beside Gaea is Vulcan. Two Victories hover over the scene. Casucini Collection at Chiusi." Lithograph from Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l''histoire des religions et des moeurs de l''antiquité. (Paris : Leleux, 1844-1861) Lenormant, Charles (1802-1859), Author.

This design of the famous kylix was adapted from an antique illustration in S. Reinach, Apollo, 1922.

Design adapted from William F. Allen Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools: A Short History of the Roman People, 1890.

This design was adapted from an antique print in Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, 1897

Lithograph of attic vase scene from: Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l''histoire des religions et des moeurs de l''antiquité. (Paris : Leleux, 1844-1861) Lenormant, Charles (1802-1859), Author.

This design was adapted from a print in "Traditional potteries from Nimrod In The North," 1885

This design is based off an antique print of Nike in Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, 1897

Because we all have a favorite ancient architectural order, do we not?

This design was derived from an antique print in "L'ornement Polychrome" (1888) by Albert Racinet. The original Victorian caption called it Greek, but the style looks much more reminiscent of 1st c CE Roman friezes.

Artemis was the ancinet Greek goddess of the Hunt, as well as child birth and child rearing. This design is inspired by the 5th c BCE attic red-figure lekythos by the Oreithyia Painter. It shows the goddess pouring a libation for a faun.

Amenhotep III is often heralded as one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs. Egypt was more cosmopolitan than ever, and the art of the period is extremely distinguished for its craftsmanship with fine lines and high standards of polish and finish. This design is based on a faience sphinx in the MET's collection, an excellent example of Amenhotep's portraiture in miniature.

This design is a reverse of a golden aureus coin minted by the Emperor Septimius Severus, the first African Emperor of the Roman Empire. His wife pictured on the coin's obverse, Julia Domna, came from Syria, so quite a cosmopolitan family in charge of the Roman empire! The legend of this reverse coin side reads: VENUS GENETRIX. More than just the goddes of love and sexuality, Venus in the aspect of "Genetrix" meaning "one who has given birth" is a motherhood goddess.Moreover, she was the mother of Aeneas, the progenitor of the Roman people, so by extension, Veneus Genetrix is treated as the mother of the Roman people. She's usually shown with her young son Cupid/Eros. Julius Caesar himself, and by extension, the other Julio-Claudians, cl...

Egyptian wooden coffin

Herodotos Father of History bust

An homage to my Alma Mater--"Friends of Wisdom, let us gather..."

This coin is from the end of her reign and the Greek legend reads BACILICCA KLEOPATRA, or "Queen Cleopatra". The cartouche along the bottom gives Cleopatra's royal titulary, translitterated from the hieroglyphs " ḳliwpꜢdrꜢ nṯrt mr(t)-it.s" meaning "Cleopatra Goddess, Beloved of her Father."

This work shows the pharaoh Ramses II as a child, his finger pressed to his lips. It is derived from an illustration in "Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquité: Égypte, Assyrie, Perse, Asie Mineure, Grece, Etrurie, Rome" (1882).

This design is based on the mosaics of Justinian and Theodora from the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.

Also available in white elsewhere in my portfolio