Vox Hunt: A Work of Art
Show us your favorite painting.
I believe this is another recycled QoTD. My answer then was the same as now.
Just one is too hard, but here are three. Crossing the River Styx by Joachim Patinir:
The interior of St Baavo's church, by the astonishing 17th-century Dutch painter of architectural subjects, Jan Pietersz. Saenredam.
And the Antwerp Madonna, by the 15th-centruy Burgundian genius Jean Fouquet. The painting has been stunningly restored in recent years. I saw it in all its psychedelic glory in 2002 at its home in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In a private viewing for just myself and a very charming and melancholic Russian count, a great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy and the curator of the Tolstoy museum. Which is a story I will have to entertain you with another time.
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I gasped at St. Baavo. Incredible.
Lol at the Russian count. It's those darn "previous Shenanigans" again, isn't it?? ;D
The Russian count was a perfect gentleman... If we hadn't both been married, there would most definitely have been shenanigans.
LOLing at the possible shenangians with the Russian count... ;)