Vincent van Gogh Landscape with Olive Trees painting

Vincent van Gogh Landscape with Olive Trees paintingVincent van Gogh The Yellow House paintingFra Angelico Madonna con Bambino painting
conditions generally in the poorer quarters of Rome. One day, in an unguarded moment, he burst out to Livia: "O mother, to be free, for only a few months even, from this intolerable life." She frightened him by making no answer and laughtily leaving the room, but later in the same day ailed him to her and surprised him by saying that she had decided to grant his wish and obtain temporary leave of retirement for him from Augustus. She took the decision partly because she wanted to put him under a debt of gratitude to her, and partly because she now knew about Julia's love-affairs and had the same idea as Tiberius about giving her rope and letting her hang herself with it. But her chief reason was that Postumus's elder brothers, Gaius and Lucius, were growing up and relations between them and their stepfather Tiberius were strained.

Gaius, who was not a bad fellow at bottom (and neither vas Lucius) had to some extent come to fill the place in Augustus's