You Love a Painting With a Story to Tell

It was a Bronzino painting called an allegory with Venus and Cupid. It's all the figures in it are Venus, Folly, Time and Mars. And one of those little girls would appear round in the corner - her thumbs are back to front,. Her thumbs are on the wrong hand. I can't remember why, but it's part of the allegory. But yes, it's not going to ask me to explain the painting are you? No, I think I've just read a quote. You said this to me and you said that he was able to explain and expand what everything meant. That's how good a teacher he was.

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