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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 435115, member: 5833&quot;]Another source of inspiration could be poetry, although that does not in any way rule out a religious theme.&nbsp; Spenser &amp; the Romantic poets were popular.&nbsp; I have a print of <a href="https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-31098" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/isabella-and-the-pot-of-basil-31098" rel="nofollow">Isabella and the Pot of Basil</a>, painted by John White Alexander, hanging in my living room.&nbsp; The story, taken from Boccaccio by John Keats, is a grisly one.&nbsp; You can&#039;t imagine why anyone would want a depiction of the conclusion, but it was among my grandmother&#039;s things.&nbsp; Notice the white roses by the pot &amp; on the floor by her foot.&nbsp; Where did they come from?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/objects/SC145625.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Could well be a painted copy of another work &amp; painter had enough integrity to neither sign it with his own name nor forge the signature of the original author.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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