ἕν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδέν οἶδα
All I know is that I know nothing
Allegedly said by Socrates
So true, 30 years in Education, and I still feel like a kindergarten student, curious and inquisitive, questioning, interested, prying …

Bastille Day

Alfred-Philippe Roll, French Artist, 1846-1919 Bastille Day, 1880-1882, Oil on Canvas,  175 x  269 cm, Petit Palais, Paris, France https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/en/oeuvre/bastille-day-1880-inauguration-monument-republic On Quatorze Juillet, Fête Nationale Française, the streets of France come alive with celebrat ...

Bust of a Lady

Bust of a Lady, circa 410 AD, from an Asia Minor workshop, possibly inAphrodisias, circa 410, white Phrygian (Dokimion) Marble, Height: 56 cm, Archaeological Museum of Chania, Greece In the Archaeological Museum of Chania on the island of Crete, the Bust of a Lady offers a rare window into the shifting artistic and ...

The Ironworkers’ Noontime

Thomas Pollock Anshutz, American Artist, 1851-1912The Ironworkers' Noontime, 1880, Oil on Canvas, 43.2 x 60.6 cm, de Young/Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA, USA https://www.famsf.org/artworks/the-ironworkers-noontime In an unexpected twist of history, Thomas Pollock Anshutz's The Ironworkers' ...

Angelos Giallinas

Angelos Giallina, Greek Artist, 1857 - 1939The Parthenon, Watercolour over Pencil, 273 by 455 mm, Private Collectionhttps://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/royal-noble/the-parthenon?locale=en In his approach to the Parthenon, Angelos Giallinas (1857–1939), a prominent Greek watercolorist of the late 19th and e ...

Sosannah

Funerary Wall Painting with Sosannah and the Elders, early 5th century, Fresco, 170 x 127 cm, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece https://www.lifo.gr/culture/arxaiologia/oi-toihografies-sta-tafika-mnimeia-sto-moyseio-byzantinoy-politismoy-tis In the quiet hush of a walled garden, Sosannah, a woman of ...