Meanwhile, back at the National Gallery

Goya, not idealizing:

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Guercino's dead Christ—decorum, emotion:

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An eye-popper, painted by a 20-year-old:

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Carracci—creatures!

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Gainsborough strikes a subtle blow for the commoners, against the gentry:

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More JMW Turner, once again between representation and reality.  Also, when unfinished might as well be finished:

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Turner—maelstrom!

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Raeburn on aristocracy, eye-line, composition:

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If you've got it, flaunt it ...

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We went to the National Portrait Gallery

They were doing this great annual thing:

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GF Watts, painting a very handsome, very inspiring gentleman:

Toffs:

Coventry Cathedral

A noble, solemn ruin.

The Litany of Reconciliation; here's Christianity, even the core of all of the Great Value Systems:

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Absorbing ...

Orrest Head, above Windermere, in England's Lake District

It is almost indecent for a place to be this beautiful.

Cameras, recording, preserving, detracting...

Gotta dance!

Claire's Knees

The boy is ignorance.  The girl is want.

This is as close to a cruise as these guys are ever likely to get

What the tourists do, on Windermere:

Pedants!

Weenies!

Nessie!

Atmospheric perspective ...

John Ruskin's gardens, at Brantwood

It's so beautiful around here that it's almost indecent:

Wildlife:

More flora, thanks very much ...

Mr. Ruskin wanted to achieve a cultivation that seemed uncultivated.

 

 

The Japanese Maple that ate New York City:

It's so beautiful around here that it's almost indecent:

Coniston Water

We made a film around here, seven whole years ago.  That film ended right here, on this spot.  It was Drew and Sarah and Spencer then.  It's Spencer and Claire now.  Discuss among yourselves...

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