Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Corona-mode museum visits


Today, I spent a few hours in Kassel’s wonderful Wilhelmshöhe museum, with its impressive collection of old master paintings. Tomorrow I will be visiting the Städel in Frankfurt to visit its En Passant - Impressionism in Sculpture exhibition. These are wonderful times to visit museums. They are delightfully empty and remind me of what museums used to be like in my youth – before mass tourism started filling museums with busloads of visitors, most of whom are totally uninterested and just chatter away, whilst their guides talk them through their visit.



To whet your appetite, this was Poussin’s idea of fun:

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