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~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

the best kisses are about the hands

“Almost every rock, every promontory, every river, is haunted by the shadows of the mighty dead,” wrote the English antiquarian Edward Dodwell of his travels in Greece in the early 19th century.

Watercolors by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi from the vast archive of the Packard Humanities Institute are featured in the new exhibition Greece’s Enchanting Landscape at the Getty Villa.

Dodwell was present in Greece during what proved to be a fascinating and complex phase in the history of classical archaeology, as antiquarians and scholars–men of Dodwell’s ilk–came to the country extolling the grandeur and nobility of its ancient past, seeing what they wanted to see, and, in some cases, taking what they wanted to take.

Centaur in Love (illustration), 1987

Lodewijk Toeput c. 1585

Memphis, Egypt, 19th century

Giant statue of Ramesses II among the ruins of the Ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. From the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.