Monthly Archives: October 2014

Through long years of my life I have held the opinion that the “Drying Out” of a person, while generally to be desired, was still a purely private matter for each and every individual. I mistakenly assumed that it was … Continue reading →

The painting showed a fence of bars with sharp points that took up the entire width of the canvas. In the foreground hundreds of stakes were pounded into the ground and all these stakes bore severed human heads on their … Continue reading →

Then he suddenly became serious. “Believe me, Herr Orlèans. It cost me an unprecedented amount of torment to paint this picture. No torture out of Dante’s Inferno comes equal to it, to wallowing around in the deep royal hearts. Please, … Continue reading →