Cornucopia 33

Great Exhibitions

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Highlights of the Brussels exhibition Mothers, Goddesses and Sultans, which exploring 10,000 years of of the female form, range from the Ottoman lady drinking coffee (see cover, above) from Istanbul's new Pera Museum, to Aphrodite in a diaphanous shift (far right), a vigorous Amazon (right) - both 1st century BC - and the voluptuous 6th millennium goddess (centre) discovered by James Mellaart at Çatalhüyük in the early 1960s.