a few of my favorite things

Grotesque (noun)
1. art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

i became very fond...almost obsessed with these paintings while in italy,
almost like a good book, i could daydream and lose myself endlessly surrounded by these freschi.

why? i do not know, perhaps, that they contain all the elements i enjoy; nature and architecture, beauty and profanity, symmetry and not, the exotic, the erotic, fantasy, romance and the occasional hint of reality.