and do not fancy a painting to put on it,
how about a relief from antiquity? it will certainly impress friends and neighbors as it stands over 7 feet high, and it has got a bit of age, none of this new avant-garde stuff, it is a relief of a Winged Genius from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, dated about 9th-century BCE, in gypsum, it once
adorned the walls of the Northwest Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at
Nimrud in what is now Iraq,
and this is what it is thought to have looked like, so you can have a bash at repainting it yourself, the figure depicted in the stone, a deity known
as Apkallu, holds a bucket and a cone-shaped object that represent fertility
and protection for the king, acquired in Mosul in 1859 by an American
missionary named Henri Byron Haskell, the relief is one of the earliest ancient
artworks sent to the United States, Haskell bought the work for $75
from English archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard, who excavated the
royal palace at Nimrud, the work has been housed at the Virginia Theological Seminary since 1860, so why is it up for sale? the seminary is selling the work to underwrite a scholarship fund, so throw that old painting out and go for this, you will have a chance at Christie’s antiquities sale in New York on October 31, so plenty of time to save up for it, just be prepared for the $10 million and $15
million it is estimated to go for!
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