"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Atargatis, also known as Ataratheh and redubbed Derceto by Pliny the Elder, was a chief goddess in northern Syria, with evidence of her cult being discovered at Palmyria. She was a fertility goddess but also presided over her city at Aleppo, called Hierapolis by the...
On Friday I wrote a piece concerning an exhibition you can see at Milan's Archeological Museum and, in passing, I mentioned the museum's collection amouns to...
If you ask anyone to name an iconic symbol connected with Ancient Egypt, some will say the scarab, but many will say the eye. The Egyptian seemed to be positively obsessed with that body part and it's not very difficult to guess why: it looks like a...
As my followers know, especially those on Instagram, I'm partial to water bodies: give me a river, a lake, a channel or the sea, and I'm a happy girl. As such, I couldn't turn down to go and see the recent exhibition on Milan and...
Sokar was the ancient god of the cemeteries in Memphis and became god of a death seen as a transformative process, the middle ring of a cycle that started with Ptah and ended with reborn Osiris. Alongside Apophis, Anubis, and other Egyptian-inspired characters, Sokar is also...
I haven't done a movie review in ages, but...
In my endeavour not to spend my days in misery, last Monday I went to Fondazione Prada here in Milan to see their new temporary exhibition: Folding Screens from the 17th to the 21st Century. It's the kind of thing I would have visited when...
The exhibition has been going on for a while, but I've been: depressed; busy with my forced relocation; depressed; busy with looking for a construction crew that can handle the repairing works in my house; depressed; busy with work; depressed; away on a journey. Said journey...
A Cantabric legend tells the story of a local girl and her dangerous liaison with the rocky cliffs around Castro Urdiales. Hers is a tale of freedom lost and regained, and her fate is said to be connected to a cursed (or blessed) mother-of-pearl mirror....
This is how this exhibition should have been called and let me be clear about it: I think it's the best exhibition in town. Created in collaboration with the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, it's curated by Francesco Poli, art historian, Mariella Guzzoni, author of Vincent's...
