Art & History

Ezra Stoller - Marin City Civic Center (1963, built 1960 by Frank Llloyd Wright)

Ezra Stoller - Marin City Civic Center (1963, built 1960 by Frank Llloyd Wright)

Katsushika Hokusai - The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road (ca. 1827)

Katsushika Hokusai - The Amida Falls in the Far Reaches of the Kisokaidō Road (ca. 1827)

Jehan Georges Vibert - Gulliver and the Liliputans (1870)

Jehan Georges Vibert - Gulliver and the Liliputans (1870)

Gold funeral mask with earrings. Mongolia or Northern China, Liao dynasty, 916–1125

Gold funeral mask with earrings. Mongolia or Northern China, Liao dynasty, 916–1125

José Villegas Cordero - Siesta (1874)

José Villegas Cordero - Siesta (1874)

A Neo-Assyrian limestone head of Pazuzu. Circa 8th-7th century B.C.

A Neo-Assyrian limestone head of Pazuzu. Circa 8th-7th century B.C.

 

“History is not a burden on the memory

but an illumination oF the soul.”

— John Dalberg-Acton