Every so often, I swap out my computer screen backdrop. This looks really cool on a long wide HD screen (which I have at work). He was a PreRafaelite, did a lot of draped women sitting on marble benches. I been looking at it for a couple of days now, trying to imagine the setting. It looks like a blimp hanger, but for course it couldn't be in a Arcadian setting, so it must the Carthage main artery sewer outlet, a Greek version of the LA River. Or perhaps the ancient equivalent of an freeway tunnel overpass. Notice that the pot looks like its stainless steel. They used to make red beans and rice in a pot like that in Buster Holmes in the French Quarter.
What a wondrous time we live in, to just pull up and play with paintings and find the most obscure pieces that may or may not be reproduced elsewhere or only in an old tome once. We can take the Grand Tour (of Europe- what the rich folks in the 1880s did.) from our desk. There are thousands of things to look at and listen to. When us dreamers were 14, little sci-fi paperbacks and the World Book Encyclopedia and comic books were it for imagining the world. I was lucky to be around an university library. Bound old Life Magazines and LPs in the Public Library was my internet. And Grandparents that kept 50 years of magazines in their basement.
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