In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after ...

The murals, which are designated as national treasures, comprise paintings of 16 men and women, as well as drawings of guardian deities representing four directions and deriving from ancient ...

Part of the mural depicts female followers of Dionysus — who is also the ancient Greek god of fertility, theater and religious ecstasy — as both dancers and hunters with a goat on their ...

Murals from the 12 th and 16 th centuries are ... the name Chrysolakourna comes from the words gold (Chryso in Greek) and the Latin lacuna which means lake, spring, trough and probably refers ...