Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My friend and I went to see an art show, and really enjoyed it, though we weren't crazy about the Pre-Raphaelite painters, we liked seeing the Botticellis, Raphaels, Veroneses, and all the influential European painters they were responding to.  We didn't know the history, and it was interesting to see how the Pre-Raphaelites eroticized the earlier works.  Romance and color and the Greco-Roman face got cherry lips and hair flying about and lush fabrics draping and adorning the models.  We went through once with the audio then after lunch came back to choose in each room the art work we liked most.  We both bought books with cats inserted into the famous paintings, and I guess that reveals we were not taking anything too seriously.  Sometimes the lesser shows are more fun, because you aren't stunned with the importance of the work or the timeless beauty that is shocking and exhausting.  I guess I just don't understand the appeal of the Medieval mysteries and knights and maidens and star crossed lovers.  Especially the courtly love thing.  All I can think of are plagues and no indoor plumbing and women dying in childbirth and Crusades that pillaged other cultures.  Oh, well, it was all very swoony while it lasted.