Reality Fragments

Vessel in the form of a parrot

Comala style, Colima, W. Mexico

Late Formative Period, 300 BCE - 400 CE

Ceramic w/ red slip

18.5 × 30.5 × 14 cm (7 5/16 × 12 × 5 1/2 in.)

Glass cameo with the head of Diana

25 - 100 CE

A superb Jun purple-splashed blue-glazed tripod censer, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens Angel of Love (Amor Caritas)

Parcel gilt silver standing cup crafted by Elias Lencker of Nuremberg, Germany, circa 1570-1580

Caravaggio, The Cardsharps, 1595.

Kimbell Art Museum

Greek statue of one of Odysseus' men transforming into a pig

Based on this scene from Homer's Odyssey:

"They called her [Circe] and she came down, unfastened the door, and bade them enter. They, thinking no evil, followed her, all except Eurylochus, who suspected mischief and staid outside. When she had got them into her house, she set them upon benches and seats and mixed them a mess with cheese, honey, meal, and Pramnian wine, but she drugged it with wicked poisons to make them forget their homes, and when they had drunk she turned them into pigs by a stroke of her wand, and shut them up in her pig-styes. They were like pigs—head, hair, and all, and they grunted just as pigs do; but their senses were the same as before, and they remembered everything." (The Odyssey, Book 10, translated by Samuel Butler)

5th century BCE