Louis Aston Knight Cottage by the River painting

Louis Aston Knight Cottage by the River paintingVittore Carpaccio The Virgin Reading paintingCaravaggio Rest on Flight to Egypt painting
he had to do it with the fiddle-string torture, why it was that he loved her so entirely. It was said that she won him with a love-philtre, and further that it sent him mad. But the love-philtre is only a guess, and he had begun to go mad long before he met her. In any case, she was with child by him and he was so excited at the thought of being a -parent that, as I say, he married her. It was shortly after his with Cassonia that he first publicly declared his own Divinity. He visited the temple of Jove on the Capitoline f Hill. Apelles was with him. He asked Apelles, "Who's the greater God-Jove or myself?" Apelles hesitated, thinking that Caligula was joking, and not wishing to blaspheme Jove in Jove's own temple. Caligula whistled two Germans up and had Apelles stripped and whipped in sight or Jove's statue. "Not so fast," Caligula told the Germans. "Slowly, so that he feels it more." They whipped him until