In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea........
Kubla Khan - written by 19thC poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge who claimed that the poem was inspired by an opium induced dream.....
Now who other than Colleen, would have thought of introducing an oil painting of Poppies with a title 'Opium' - as a theme piece for the Renaissance exhibition... mind you, given the fact that the Sumarian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Minoan, Greek, Roman, Persian and Arab Empires all made widespread use of opium as the most potent form of pain relief - it's certainly a topic well befitting the Age of Antiquity!!!
The colours used by Colleen are given to much gay splendour and abandon...a freedom that leads onto another oil...a sea most certainly not sunless!!! .....entitled ' Red Sky at Night - Shepherd's Delight'
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