Medusa Mosaic Puzzle Mythology Text by Stephanie Rosentha

Text by Stephanie Rosentha

With his devoted amanuensis Dr

Indian contemporary artist Bharti Kher

deliriously glorious

Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives

Medusa Mosaic Puzzle Mythology Text by Stephanie RosenthaIn 1892 an ancient villa was discovered just north of Rome, near the villa of Augustuss wife Livia. Several well preserved mosaic floors adorned the baths of the villa. Jack and Isabella Gardner inspected the mosaics in 1895 and purchased this floor in 1897. The delicate tracery of this mosaic resembles those made in Pompei around 25 AD (the late second or third style), but brick stamps indicate that it was laid a century later, during the reign of