Some of the imagery in the song might come from paintings Dylan saw when he was in Europe.
There are famous paintings of the "Spanish Steps" and "Inside the Colosseum".
And I'm reasonably sure that in the "original" Bob's date was with "Botticelli's VENUS",
a very famous painting. Not his niece.
I don't know about the verse in Brussels. Maybe the clergymen, young girls and newspapermen
are subjects of more modern paintings, that "greeted" Bob when he stepped inside a museum.
Or maybe the verse is just the stuff of Bob's life. It might be obstructing his painting
his masterpiece, or at least not inspiring it. The irony being that it did inspire him to
"paint" this masterpiece of a song.
I don't know anything. Just puttin it out there.
Some of the imagery in the song might come from paintings Dylan saw when he was in Europe. There are famous paintings of the "Spanish Steps" and "Inside the Colosseum". And I'm reasonably sure that in the "original" Bob's date was with "Botticelli's VENUS", a very famous painting. Not his niece. I don't know about the verse in Brussels. Maybe the clergymen, young girls and newspapermen are subjects of more modern paintings, that "greeted" Bob when he stepped inside a museum. Or maybe the verse is just the stuff of Bob's life. It might be obstructing his painting his masterpiece, or at least not inspiring it. The irony being that it did inspire him to "paint" this masterpiece of a song. I don't know anything. Just puttin it out there.