Paintings at Hogwarts School have characters that move around. They also talk to Harry Potter and his friends sometime supplying useful information. If only the characters in some of the paintings I've looked at this summer could do the same.
I'd love to ask the six figures in Francois de Nome's King Asa of Judah a few things.
1. Where is the church building in which the artist has put them? France or Italy seem likely but which is it?
2. Are the three soldiers defending the place or invading?
3. Who is the figure running from the explosion? Is he an early seventeenth century terrorist/rioter or just an innocent bystander?
4. Are King Asa and his henchman heroic reformers or representatives of a dictatorial regime?
Perhaps the answers to these questions would help solve the mystery of the painting's meaning. Then again, if the characters are anything like those at Hogwarts maybe not.
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