when you treat artistic license as a historical document – Hubert Robert, The Pantheon with the Port of Ripetta (1766) – Robert just thought The Pantheon was much more interesting than San Girolamo dei Croati
The five-dollar word for this is capriccio, a genre deliberately cramming together and exaggerating grand architecture.
It reminds me of the time new York went thru the “Raining men” era. You couldn’t walk 3 ft without a neked man dropping from the sky on ya. Took 300 years to clean that mess.
Thank goodness the Weather Girls were around to give a warning about it, although only within about a 12-hour window.
Mud rain. Like all the other times dirt and water joined in the clouds and made mud rain. It’s such a natural occurrence that this mud flood thing is quite logical. There are whole mountains of dirt up in the clouds, way more than on the ground, which is why the sky looks so dirty. Gotta watch out for those mud rains. Remember all the other things that we lost to mud rain? Like an empire that was so advanced it couldn’t deal with mud. Tragic.
I get where you’re going with this, but the atmosphere carries tons of sand from the Sahara to the Amazon every year. Maybe not a whole mountain…
The idea of “mud rains” are definitely dumb, though.
Reminded me of Bowfinger for some reason:
