A secret visit to an underground apothecary in Rome, 1660

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A fine art oil painting. The scene is in Rome, Italy, in the year 1660. A gilded sedan chair is being carried down a narrow mediaeval street. The sedan chair was occupied by a young aristocratic woman, who is now alighting after peering from behind her curtains on the chair to see if she is being observed; she does not wish to be seen by the public. Ahead, two liveried servants light the way with flaring torches. The little cavalcade has just reached a small square on the slopes of the Velia hill, where it has stopped. There is silence except for the splash of water from a tiny fountain. The woman is sumptuously dressed in the manner of seventeenth century Rome. The street is lined with the crumbling mediaeval facades of large town houses, one of which shows dim light from within through the windows. Another woman arrives and knocks on the door of the house, and a servant collects a ring from the woman in the sedan chair and gives it to the woman at the door, which is then opened slightly. The atmosphere is mysterious, aristocratic and secret, warm evening colours, and the scene is depicted in richly textured style reminiscent of the Italian masters of the seventeenth century.

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An oil painting of a 17th-century European street scene at night. In the foreground, a richly adorned rococo gold sedan chair is positioned on the slick cobblestone street, its fabric curtains draped to reveal a woman in a radiant golden gown and a jewelled crown emerging from within. Her right hand extends to be clasped by a man in dark, ornate clothing, with another woman in a similar golden gown standing by a dark wooden door on the right, looking back at the group. The street is wet and reflective, with warm golden light illuminating the scene from torches carried by two men in short brown tunics and hats, standing near a stone fountain with a carved face spewing water. In the background, ancient stone buildings with multiple windows climb toward a cloudy, dark sky, some lit from within, suggesting a secret, aristocratic and mysterious atmosphere.

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