Prado

Madrid

Velazquez <3

Standing in front of Las Meninas.
surprised by brushwork.
muddy and rough.

I should remember
its not about the detail being fine
but the strokes being alive!

The canvas is stitched in 3 parts

"<a href=http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&tbs=&sa=1&q=La+venerable+madre+de+la+Fuente&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&start=0>La vernerable madre Jerónian** de la Fuente"
and all the writing she stands on.
the rope.
"<a href=http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&tbs=&sa=1&q=La+reina+doña+Margarita+de+Austria&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&start=0>La reina doña Margarita de Austria"

Juan Carreno De Miranda
"<a href=http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&tbs=&sa=1&q=Eugenia+Martinez+Vallejo&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&start=0>Eugenia Martinez Vallejo"
"la Monstrua", vestida
kleine dikke schate

What can i say about Fra Angelico
"<a href=http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&tbs=&sa=1&q=Annunciation+fra+angelico&aq=f&aqi=g1g-m1&aql=&oq=&start=0>Annunciation"
curious how he did the floor.
and the rough gold of the cloth
behind her she sits on.
see it a a comic strip almost.

AGNUS DEI

Robert Campion
"The betrothal of the Virgin"

<a hre=http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=Dirk+Bouts&aq=f&aqi=g2&aql=&oq=&start=0>Dirk Bouts
"La Annunciation"
"La Visitacion"
"The Adoration of the Angles"
"La Epifonia"

"The Fountain of Grace"

Where is the story of Lucifer told????

Standing in front of
<a href=http://images.google.com/images?q=garden%20of%20earthly%20delights&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Such a beautiful and playful painting.
Examining the textures.
Eating freely from the tree

I need to buy <a href=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bosch-Taschen-Basic-Walter-Bosing/dp/3822858560/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267020806&sr=1-4>a Giant book of Bosch!
l/u <a href=http://images.google.com/images?q=PATINIR&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>PATINIR

19th century
<a href=http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Joaquin+Sorolla&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=XTSFS7qsPMOD-QbKv63MCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA8QsAQwAA>Joaquin Sorolla

Madrazo, Raimundo d e

"<a href=http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=The+Extraction+of+the+Stone+of+Madness&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&start=0>The Extraction of the Stone of Madness"