The Progress Of A Soul: The Victory

-Miranda-

Moritz Ludwig Von Schwind

Fred Appleyard

British

1874 - 1963

The Spirit of the Summit

Visogoth Votive Crown with Cross from Spain dated to the 7th Century on display at the Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris, France

This was one of the many pieces of votive offerings excavated from the archaeological site in Guadamur in Spain. Part of the “Treasure of Guarrazar”, named after the orchid it was found in, it represents the Byzantine influences on Visogothic artwork but using Germanic manufacturing techniques.

The treasure was considered to have been hidden in the 8th Century due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania and the destruction of the Visogothic Kingdom.

Photographs taken by myself 2017

'Danae' by German symbolist Carl Strathmann (1866-1939)

On the Seashore, George Elgar Hicks (1879)

Mosaic depicting Herakles drinking with Dionysos, Roman, 3rd century AD

from The Princeton University Art Museum

The Old, Old Story (1903) by John William Godward

-Monaco Monte Carlo-

Aphrodite

Figurine of Aphrodite, East Greek, Hellenistic Period, late 3rd century BC, terrcotta, 23.2 cm

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Inv. 97.356