Stories By Marga Patterson
Art Forms
The Charm of Colorful and Shiny Italian Maiolica Ceramic Wares
April 20, 2021Maiolica ceramic wares are exquisitely decorated and vibrantly colored handmade artworks made popular during the Italian Renaissance. Their timeless beauty has inspired artists and fascinated art collectors throughout the ages. The Maiolica technique illuminated ceramics that...
Ancient
Mysterious Female Nude Statuettes of the Parthian Empire
April 13, 2021Several female nude statuettes have been unearthed from the subterranean landscape of ancient Iraq. Rendered in the Greco-Babylonian style, these sensual, stone beauties captivate all who lay eyes on them. Yet their true meaning remains a...
Artist
The Electric Works of Igor Moritz: Artist Interview
March 22, 2021Igor Moritz (b.1996) is a young, Polish contemporary painter living in London. Primarily self-taught, Moritz creates intimate portraits of his friends and family saturated with explosive colors. His works are energetic and expressive, transforming the mundane...
Ancient
Art and Ritual: Culture of the Enigmatic Moche People
March 18, 2021The Moche were an ancient, indigenous people of Andean Peru. They are considered to be one of the most influential civilizations of the ancient Americas. Through their art, they conveyed the stories of their people and...
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The Wonder and Glory of Medieval Portable Shrines
March 9, 2021For devoted Christians, a portable shrine provided an immediate and intimate way to connect to a higher power within a monastic space or the privacy of one’s home. Portable shrines were small-scale, ritual objects with movable...
Ancient
A Luxurious Desire: Ancient Near Eastern Ivory Carvings
February 18, 2021The allure of ivory, a lustrous material that when polished gleams and glows, exuding warmth and a mysterious beauty. Near Eastern ivory carvings are eerily seductive and hauntingly beautiful. Imagine the thrill of finding such exquisite...
Ancient
Living Memories: The Funerary Stelae of Ancient Cyprus
January 20, 2021The majority of sculpture that survives from ancient Cyprus are funerary stelae, elaborate grave markers to commemorate the dead. Possessing an almost mystical quality that is highly evocative and equally arresting, these emphatic monuments preserve a...
21st century
The Ephemeral Magic of Raw Clay: Artist Interview with Phoebe Cummings
January 15, 2021Phoebe Cummings (b.1981) is a British sculptress-ceramics artist working primarily with unfired, living clay in its raw state. She creates time-based installations that are extremely detailed, delicate, and multi-layered. Phoebe’s exquisite clay sculptures pulse with an...
Ancient
The Fascinating Ceramic Tile Art of the Anatolian Seljuks
December 30, 2020The ceramic tile art of the Anatolian Seljuks dazzled with its mystical turquoise hues, fantastical creatures, and figural depictions. So, who were the Anatolian Seljuks and what inspired them to create such wildly, imaginative ceramic tiles?...
Art Travels
The Colors of the Earth and Beyond: Artist İnterview with Ulrike Arnold
December 17, 2020Ulrike Arnold (b. 1950) is a contemporary German artist working with earth pigments that she gathers by hand. For the last forty years, she has traveled to all seven continents and collected earth pigments while working...
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