> I was unaware that some of the Post-Impressionists read many classical > authors.
This comment from Christian Prigent is interesting in the context of Emma Guest's remark above: "les ciels de tourbillons étoilés de Van Gogh doivent autant à sa lecture de Virgile qu’à sa vision immédiate de la nuit provençale." The full text is at: http://www.remue.net/cont/prigent02.html Patrick Roper ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub