Ancient Roman Painting

Many people go to Rome to see paintings by Michelangelo. Few realise that one can also see in Rome ancient Roman painting no less good than Michelangelo. Todays art historians write that the Renaissance masters discovered chiraoscuro and human anatomy but the ancient Roman paintings clearly show that this is not the case. The Roman painters were obviously aware of both the anatomy and lights and shadows and used them with virtuosity. Only small fragments can be seen today in some Roman museums. They demonstrate what Roman painting must have been like.

Painters of Arnhem Land

Australian Aborigines are talented painters. On Arnhem Land, where it rains a lot, traditional painting was on eucalyptus bark. White anthropologists collected those paintings for ethnography museums. However, when Picasso saw them, he said that he would like to paint like this himself. If Picasso said something like that, then it must be real art and should be exhibited in art galleries, not ethnography museums. This is what happens nowadays, all my pictures are from art exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane and Alice Springs. 
I wrote more about Aboriginal Australian art on my other blog, if anyone is interested:
https://askaglobetrotter.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-old-masters-of-arnhem-land.html

Escuela cuzceña

Not many tourists in Cuzco take any notice of baroque paintings there, but it might be worthy as during the baroque era it was a centre of a very characteristic school of painting. So called 'escuela cuzceña' was especially known for monumental paintings of Our Lady with so many robes that she looks like a mountain. Some writers today suspect that this is a christianized version of Pachamama, Mother Earth, which is still worshiped in many places in Peru. In any case these images are common in Peru but it would be hard to find anything like this in European baroque.