08-02-2007, 09:42 PM
.....hmmmmm, Luca, the illustration I saw didn't seem to be overly black - but I will just have to wait and see when you post your illustration, AFIK, traces of paint on the column were visible in the 1830's ( but infuriatingly no description of these) --and was this original, or a later re-paint?? :? ( ( ( (
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff