Re: Mrs Figg's Art History Thread

[halfwise]

So an American art dealer was found to have a coffee table made of part of the dance floor of Caligula's barge.  She didn't know it until a photo book documenting ancient roman uses of porphyry came out.  Turns out it was part of a trove stolen by the Nazis, and her table in turn was seized and returned to Italy.  The museum that now has it is offering to make her a replica.  This will cost them tens of thousands, for it's exquisite work.  She should take them up on the offer.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-city-womans-coffee-table-060526760.html

[Mrs Figg]

I read about that, its an amazing story. You could hardly make up a story so random. From Caligula to New York, weird eh.

[Forest Shepherd]

Stranger than fiction, as they say.