Day two hundred and forty-two: I started and scrapped several sketches before I decided to flip though travel photos for a subject I could paint. Scrolling through a set from Agrigento, Sicily reminded me of the ancient and very worn sandstone columns in the so-called “Valley of the Temples.” Based on descriptions of the area in Cicero’s Verrine Orations, these solid and heroic remnants of Greek civilization in the 6th century BCE are believed to have been part of a temple to Herakles.
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