Painted Dawn sky
I had the good fortune to live in a Scottish mansion when I was in my teens at boarding school.
The ceiling of the old Ball Room, turned prep room / lounge, depending on the time of day, was hand painted with a scene of Greek gods descending from a sky that looked very much like this.
Not long after I left school, the number of boarders attending the otherwise day school had dwindled to such an extent that the boarding house was sold and became an old age nursing home. Then the desks around the walls of the large room were replaced by armchairs each containing a near catatonic old person. So sad.
Even sadder, the place is now vacant and crumbling.
I wonder if the ballroom ceiling still has the painting on it?
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