woman reading in a landscape

Woman Reading in a Landscape, 1869, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot When Corot painted this young woman so totally immersed in her book, little could he have imagined that another woman some 160 years later would happen across this photo while browsing on the Internet and be struck speechless by the resemblance to herself and…

the fall of icarus

In my last post, I mentioned Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Fall of Icarus (or rather Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). I'd like to return to this painting, as it happens to be one of my favourite. The painting, which is believed to be an early copy rather than the original Bruegel, is to be found in…