browngirl

Filling in a couple of the blanks, the novel is simply Artemisia by Alexandra Lapierre (translated from the French by Liz Heron).

redbird answered the ID question. At the time, I wrote down its period as "Early Bronze, 2800 - 3300"

The stuff from Italy is from both xiphias and I (I think he spotted the art gallery 1st, fwiw)

I really don't need anything in return (except time, but nobody these days seems to have a surplus of that)