Baths of Caracalla - Rome, Italy

How about another trip to Italy? Let's go to ancient Rome, to be exact. Jim Ackerman tells the story behind today's featured painting of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy (TR026).

"I'm not quite sure why Mom chose the Baths of Caracalla to paint for me. Maybe it's because she thought I had a fetish. I guess I may, I love to search out ancient bath houses. It didn't end with the bath houses, though - it extends to latrines, outhouses, call them what you will. There are well preserved ruins of both bath houses and latrines at Ephesus and Pammukalle in Turkey, Pompeii and Rome in Italy and other ancient cities in Greece and Morocco. We've seen many ruins of bath houses, but the Baths of Caracalla were special. It was a huge, ornate, bath house, where everybody who was anybody (as long as they were male) would go to relax in a hot tub or sauna, for a rub down, to close a deal or further a personal agenda. I couldn't live like that, but it is interesting to see how they did thousands of years ago." -- Jim Ackerman

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