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Margret E. Short Fine Arts

Portland, Oregon artist Margret Short - a modern day master of 17th Century Dutch art using the chiaroscuro technique to create still life and floral paintings.

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Egypt

Moon Over Kom Ombo

January 24, 2009 by Margret Short

  This temple of Kom Ombo is set dramatically on a hill overlooking a bend in the Nile. This Greco-Roman style temple is Egypt's only double temple where everything is doubled and perfectly symmetrical along a central axis. The twin entrances, twin courts, and twin colonnades are all dedicated to both Sobek, the crocodile god and … [Read more...] about Moon Over Kom Ombo

Tagged With: azurite, crocodile god, Egypt, Haroeris the solar disc, Kom Ombo, pigments, red iron ozide, Sobek

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