When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, catastophic volcanic ash buried cities and towns in the region of Southern Italy. This panel is a reproduction of a fresco wall painting (Roman, about 40–30 B.C.) from the bedroom of a country villa in Boscoreale, about one mile north the volcano. We all often make the mistake… Read more »
Bring home some of the splendor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art store. Our resident art consultant, has always loved these two early nineteenth-century, six-panel screens, Red Maple and Willow and Cherry Tree, both by Rinpa school artist Sakai Hōitsu (Japanese, 1761–1828). Delicately capturing the moods of fall and spring, we think they are are… Read more »