Lee Durkee sent me
an article ("click" here) about a painting of
John Dee that used to show John Dee standing in a circle of skulls (
see also) but then the
skulls were painted over, probably because they creeped out the person who bought the painting. I guess my favorite paragraph in the article is: "Dee is performing some sort of experiment. 'It looks like the sort of dramatic thing
chemistry teachers do at the end of term,' said Birkwood." Pictured, some of the skulls that were painted over.