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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4356563, member: 5833&quot;]I tend to agree with this,&nbsp; I have a framed print that belonged to my grandmother.&nbsp; Found after she died, no one remembered seeing it in the home she had with my grandfather, so probably something she had before her marriage in 1925.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is in a similar vein, a depiction of a scene originating in Italian literature of earlier centuries.&nbsp; Keats took the story of Isabella from the Decameron.&nbsp; <a href="https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31098" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31098" rel="nofollow">The painting, by John W</a>hite Alexander, depicts Isabella with the pot of basil that hides the head of her murdered lover.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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