cavetocanvas:

Black granite, one of the hardest of stones, found now days as kitchen counter tops. Can you imagine it as a delicate, diaphanous gown? No?

In the hands of a master artist it can become sheer, light and filmy as the picture below shares.  This sculpture is of Arsinoe II, a great, great, great grandmother of Cleopatra and one of the most powerful and beautiful women in the world around 300 BCE.

This is one of my photos taken at a traveling exhibition of Egyptian Ptolemy art and objects rescued from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea around Alexandria Egypt.

(Submitted by savantml)

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cavetocanvas:

Black granite, one of the hardest of stones, found now days as kitchen counter tops. Can you imagine it as a delicate, diaphanous gown? No?

In the hands of a master artist it can become sheer, light and filmy as the picture below shares.  This sculpture is of Arsinoe II, a great, great, great grandmother of Cleopatra and one of the most powerful and beautiful women in the world around 300 BCE.

This is one of my photos taken at a traveling exhibition of Egyptian Ptolemy art and objects rescued from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea around Alexandria Egypt.

(Submitted by savantml)

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