Mammals and Wildlife


Artwork by Gina Mikel: Langurs at Akrotiri, Semnopithecus entellus

Langurs at Akrotiri (Semnopithecus entellus), 2026

Langurs at Akrotiri (Semnopithecus entellus) is a 2026 digital piece by Gina that revisits the blue monkeys painted on a wall in Santorini during the Late Bronze Age, around the 17th or 16th century BC. Scholars have proposed that the animals are langurs, natives of the Indian subcontinent. The eruption of Thera buried Akrotiri. Blue figures leap across white, ochre and rust-red rocks.