Today on discovering how all my obsessions collide in increasingly fascinating ways: Angelica Kauffman, the female painter Jean-Paul Marat may or may not have had an affair with painted this picture of Catullus and Lesbia (and her dead sparrow!)
Kauffman was a Catullus fan confirmed -> I therefore conclude Marat would have read Catullus as well
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