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Posts Tagged ‘art’
Florence – you take my breath away
Firenze … the birthplace of the Renaissance. A city so beautiful and magnificent you leave speechless and in awe. Because pictures are worth 1000 words and Florence is a city of art, I feel it is best described through photographs. The old Ponte Vecchio Bridge … born in the 13th century and the only bridge to survive […]
Antwerp: Big girl (you are beautiful)
Several people had told us to check out the city of Antwerp while we were in Belgium. We spent a few days in the city one of which was a national holiday and as a result the town was lively with an outdoor concert and cafes full of people having a good time. Rubens’ House […]
The Art of Amsterdam
Two of the greatest painters in European art history are Dutch. One can see 22 paintings by Rembrandt and 206 by Van Gogh in Amsterdam. I visited the Reijksmuseum which houses a large collection of paintings from many artist of the Dutch Golden Age. I spent a day in the Van Gogh Museum which I preferred […]
Starry Night
The sights of the stars always makes me dream, in as simple a way as the black spots on the map, representing towns and villages, makes me dream. Why, I say to myself, should the spots of lights in the fimament be less accessible to us than the black spots on the map in France? […]