After decades as a representational painter, in her seventies Alma Thomas turned to abstraction, creating shimmering, mosaic-like fields of color with rhythmic dabs of paint that were often inspired by forms from nature. The artist had been fascinated with space exploration since the late 1960s, and her later paintings often referenced America's...

The artwork (engraving) entitled Venus and Mars discovered by Apollo is dated in 1531-60. It is made by Giulio Bonasone (Italian, active Rome and Bologna, 1531-after 1576).

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