December 13, 2024

DEC 13, around and about: visit to the National Gallery, London, UK

 a) Review of material posted on December 13 in previous years ...


2020: anagrams, Republicans-in-Canada (wordplay maps) 
2021: poetry of healthcare, Canadian healthcare (illustrated poem)
2022: duplication, harum-scarum (poem)
2023: commercial product: male-turkey prosthesis (illustrated poem
)

b) Today's Offering (Dec 13, 2024)


Time Orders Old Age to Destroy Beauty,
Pompeo Battoni, 1746


Sun Rising Through Vapour, JMW Turner, 1807



The Execution of Maximilian, Edouard Manet, 1868



Eva Gonzales, Edouard Manet, 1870


Bathers at La Grenouillere, Claude Monet, 1869



The Skiff, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1875


Bathers at Asniere, Georges Seurat, 1884



Late Afternoon in Our Meadow, Camille Pissarro, 1887



Two Crabs, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

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