This one might be arriving at a critical moment. Anyone who wants to howl about "AI Slop" is invited to sit right down and carve me this magnificent piece of jewelry, please and thank you:
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I was going to show some cameos inspired by another famous work of art that Aunt Queen had a cameo of. The Three Graces.
However, the results I got were, for the most part, ones I was not comfortable with and ultimately deleted. I don't delete very often, but when I do, you can be assured it was with good reason that I did.
I am a bit more comfortable doing this instead. If you are familiar with...umm...final resting places of celebrities, Hollywood in particular, you might have heard of an enormous memorial park in Glendale, California. Forest Lawn.
No, not the one due to be having a Rudolph Valentino event to mark 100 years since his passing. That one is Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
I mean the one with what is called the Great Mausoleum.
Yes, it is where Michael Jackson is. But what I'm going to provide you with will not take you to that section of the Great Mausoleum.
If you are familiar with the Great Mausoleum, you no doubt know of the Last Supper window and that the building contains a pretty astonishing collection of statues, stained glass and other art. Some actually are contained in private family rooms, and on sarcophagi.
Before we continue, you need to know that Forest Lawn has rules most people might not have encountered in other places. One of them is no unauthorized photos or videos. Another is that the Great Mausoleum has rules specifically governing entry. Meaning you can't just wander in or around the place. Forest Lawn does have a website where you can learn more. Just search for "Forest Lawn Glendale" and it will come right up.
To see what the Three Graces look like, I'm going to direct you to a memorial on Find A Grave. It is a memorial for the Falvella family, a sarcophagus with the statue of the Three Graces mounted right on top of it. A carved, miniature version of the statue is what would have been on Aunt Queen's cameo brooch.
I am not going to link the memorial because again, I'm not comfortable doing that. I will provide you with these details: the Falvella family Distinguished Memorial is on Dahlia Terrace in the Great Mausoleum. I found it with a Google search for "Falvella find a grave".
This particular memorial is actually pretty astonishing. Not just because of the Three Graces statue, but for everything around it. There is, nearby, a Poet's Corridor as well.
I know.
What.
No, really. The corridor has a series of stained-glass windows each depicting a poem, or a part of a poem, the words engraved in the marble beside each window. This is something else a Google search will find very easily. Thirteen stained-glass windows along the Poet's Corridor, and you can even see them. Forest Lawn's website has information about this along with the Last Supper window.
Speaking of stained-glass windows, I thought I'd see what NightCafe could come up with. Rebekah at the Well in stained-glass:
