Museum tours
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About this book
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Chapter 1.
Musée d’Orsay
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Bastille Day, 1900
– The building was inaugurated as a train station.
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Behind the face of the clock
– It wasn’t a dream.
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Architecture
– Large coffered arches.
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La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles
– Vincent Van Gogh, 1889.
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Léglise d’Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet
– Vincent Van Gogh, 1890.
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L’Angélus
– Jean-François Millet, 1857, 1859.
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Portrait de l’artiste
– Vincent Van Gogh, 1889.
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Coquelicots
– Claude Monet, 1873.
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Essai de figure en plein-air : Femme à l’ombrelle tournée vers la gauche
– Monet painted her en plein air.
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La Cathédrale de Rouen. Le Portail et la Tour Saint-Romain, plein soleil
– Monet painted the west front of the Rouen Cathedral.
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La Classe de danse
– A young ballerina scratches her back.
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Bal du moulin de la Galette
– Dappled light shines though leaves on young people, unposed.
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Le Cheval blanc
– We ride beside blue water.
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Nuit d’été
– Two women dance in the light of the moon.
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Chapter 2.
Kandinsky in the Guggenheim
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
– The architecture, not the art, kept my attention.
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Einige Kreise
– They put the design on a silk tie.
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Empor
– I think Vasily made a face.
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Der blaue Berg
– Riders begin their journey.
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Landschaft mit welligen Hügeln
– Forms overwhelm the fields.
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Chapter 3.
British Museum
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Parthenon in fragments
– Fragments survive.
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Sennacherib
– They believed organization and strategy proved their superiority.
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The Sennacherib Prism
– This clay prism says Sennacherib defeated the Babylonians.
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A’a
– We are his ears and his eyes.
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South Wind, Clear Sky
– His wooden block is the sunrise.
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Black George
– Saint George’s red spear pierces the dragon’ mouth.
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Buddhist cosmology
– Let’s assume that life is suffering.
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Rhinoceron
– My armor isn’t fanciful or familiar.
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Lewis chessmen
– They look as though they’d been stuck with a pin.
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Tārā
– She makes the gesture of giving.
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Canopic jars
– The four sons of Horus hold the organs.
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Chapter 4.
Dürer at Musée du Louvre
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Pentecost
– It’s a matter of convention.
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Bats
– Theses poor creatures were drawn true to life.
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Hare
– No hair on this hare is out of place.
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Lioness
– Dürer sketched her at the zoological park in Antwerp.
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Self-portrait
– The implications are clear.
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Death of the Virgin
– Mary’s room is crowded.
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Man drawing a vase
– The room he’s in is the joke.