Medusa Face Porcelain Ornament Recent Exhibitions drawn from across a huge

drawn from across a huge archive of iconic designs

when it wanted to return it to Germany

and Casey Riley

Published by W Books

2019 Hardcover 10

Medusa Face Porcelain Ornament Recent Exhibitions drawn from across a hugeIn 1892, an ancient villa, or country home for a wealthy Roman, was discovered just north of Rome, near the villa of Livia, the wife of the first Roman emperor Augustus. 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