Naive Signed 1938 Oil on Linen Veronica's Veil Painting bronze frog and the wonderful painted decoration

and the wonderful painted decoration everywhere

with black painted shoes that just peek out below the belly of the mule (I assume) on the reverse side

Since the publication of Calo Collidi's The Adventures of Pinocchio in Italy in 1883

which just makes him all the more empathetic

Naive Signed 1938 Oil on Linen Veronica's Veil Painting bronze frog and the wonderful painted decorationI presume this painting, signed Peter Murray and dated 1938, was done after one famous image or another of Veronica's Veil, that most venerated of Christian relics. (According to medieval legend, the veil belonged to a woman who took pity on Christ as he toiled with his burden of the cross to Golgotha. She gave Christ her kerchief to wipe his brow, and when he returned the cloth, his image miraculously had been impressed upon it.) I of course love its