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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1890, Oil on canvas, 35” x 27” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY © 2021 . All rights reserved.

A Charming Love Story

Here’s a nice love story for Valentine’s Day – it comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a poem written in the 8th century in Rome that is based on a story from Greek mythology.  Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with his statue … Continue reading