EXTRACTS: Drawing from History: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania © The Book Palace (340 PAGES in Full edition)

The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania 25 Above: Cambyses II admiring the beauty of his daughter Amasis. © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Right: Semiramis, the woman who built Babylon, outside the walls of Bactria. Below: King Ninus demands Onnus to give up his wife, Semiramis, to him.