The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  from the 2022 exhibit  Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy at the Legion of Honor

  detail of a sixteenth-century Italian majolica gourd flask with stopper , now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of Sleeping Venus by Eustache Le Sueur, now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of A Crowned Virgin Martyr (Saint Catherine of Alexandria?) by Bernardo Daddi, now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of Snowy Morning from the series Among Snow, Moon, and Flowers by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the ...

  detail of Tiepolo's Punchinello Collapses at the Walls of a Villa , #83 in his series  Divertimento per gli ragazzi (Entertainment fo...

  detail of an Etruscan bronze sculpture of Veiovis (Jupiter), seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit   The Etruscans: F...

  detail of a plate attributed to the Rosoni Painter, active circa 580 - 550 BCE, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit...

  detail of the Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children by Lavinia Fontana, now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of a Roman Four Seasons sarcophagus , now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of Lover Asleep by Jean Cocteau, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the exhibit  Drawing the Line: Michelangelo to Asawa,

  detail of a 1786 cup & saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe) with orange ground, decorated by Charles-Nicolas Buteux fils at the Sèvres...

  detail of  Five Sibyls in Niches: The Persian, Libyan, Delphic, Cimmerian, and Erythraean by Botticelli (this is the Persian); normally t...

  detail of Woman Sewing by Berthe Morisot, seen at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit Manet & Morisot

  detail of Two Women by Natalia Goncharova, which I saw at the Legion of Honor as part of the special exhibit Drawing the Line: Michelan...

  detail of Saint John the Baptist by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of Landscape at Beaulieu by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of Landscape with Pan and Syrinx by Paul Bril, now at the Legion of Honor

  detail of Bacchus & Ariadne by Corneille Van Clève, an early eighteenth-century French bronze now in the Legion of Honor

  detail of The Crowning of Mirtillo by Ferdinand Bol, now in the Legion of Honor Mirtillo is a young shepherd disguised as a woman so he c...