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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sunny G., post: 11063565, member: 93010&quot;]Looking at this, at first I saw Cassandra as well - komokwa&#039;s comment about Lupa had me thinking about her cousin, Aeneas. But when I think of Rome and warnings (as suggested by mirana), I think of the Ides of March. Followed that lead a bit, and now I believe this depicts Caesar on his way to the Senate. I searched up paintings of Calpurnia and Caesar and came across this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Jules_C%C3%A9sar_se_rendant_au_s%C3%A9nat_le_jour_des_Ides_de_Mars.jpg?20120715235410" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Étude pour César allant au Sénat le jour des Ides de Mars</i> by Alexandre-Denis-Abel de Pujol (1785-1861). Admittedly, I&#039;m not confident the woman is Calpurnia. I found a resource from the Valenciennes Museum of Fine Arts (&quot;La ligne souple Dessins d’Abel de Pujol 21 octobre 2011 - 03 janvier 2012&quot;) that suggests that the above image was a study for a palace ceiling painting that might&#039;ve been destroyed in the 1848 revolution - but my French is rusty, so take that with a grain of salt. Here&#039;s a similar Abel de Pujol work:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/C%C3%A9sar_se_rendant_au_s%C3%A9nat_aux_Ides_de_Mars.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Such a cool subject, especially if it&#039;s a destroyed piece of art captured in a cameo. I had fun looking into this; thanks for sharing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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