aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman: Pagan Gods: Astarte By John Singer Sargent. 1895.Detail depicting As
aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman: Pagan Gods: Astarte By John Singer Sargent. 1895.Detail depicting Astarte [Ishtar], the goddess of sensuality. Notable are her thinly-painted blue robes over the bodies of entrapped female figures. Her jewels represent some of the mural cycle’s 600+ elements of raised relief; these ones sparkling in metal and glass. -- source link