Queen of the Night

Ishtar, Queen of the Night
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
12" x 16"
Reprints available on Fine Art America
Original available for $175. on Etsy

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only;

not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

-Saul Steinberg

(Parts of this image were inspired by a 4000 year old Babylonian sculpture.)