Picture This

September, 1988

Picture ThisRembrandt painting Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer was himself contemplating the bust of Homer where it stood on the red cloth covering the square table in the left foreground and wondering how much money it might fetch at the public auction of his belongings that he was already contemplating would sooner or later be more or less inevitable.Aristotle could have told him it would not fetch much. The bust of Homer was a copy.It was an authentic Hellenistic imitation of a Hell...