Interests: Interests
General: Art
★★★London's great Gothic abbey is packed with the tombs and monuments of British monarchs and some the world's most famous playwrights, poets, scientists, and other notables
★★★England's greatest repository of Old Masters paintings, with works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, and more
The rebirth of Classical ideals lead to a Europe-wide flowering of the arts
This late 19C Romantic offshoot offered a, well, a romanticized reinterpretation of the Medieval style
★★☆London's Royal Residence, from the State Rooms and royal gardens to the Queen's Gallery and the (yawnfest) changing of the guard
★☆☆The royal palace so nice Henry VIII honeymooned here twice—and then three times, and four, and five...
★★☆A fantastic bit-of-everything museum including Old Masters paintings
★★☆Fantastic modern art museum in a massive former power plant, with blockbuster exhibitions and a fab gift shop and bookstore
★☆☆A small, free city museum of London life, Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art, and Roman ruins in the basement
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★☆☆The University of London has a spectacular gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings
★☆☆A vast park in North London, with lovely views, wooded rambles, swimming ponds, cozy pubs, and Old Master art in a genteel manor house
★☆☆A 17th century manor house in Hampstead Heath with a fabulous free art collection
★☆☆A gallery of some of the greatest hits of British painting and sculpture
★☆☆Fantastic, small, bit-of-everything museum—ancient Roman and Egyptian sculptures; paintings by Turner, Reynolds, and Hogarth; architectural remnants and Cantonese furniture—all crammed into the formerly private home of an eclectic collector
★☆☆An historic London townhouse filled with 18C antiques and French and Old Master paintings—all for free
★☆☆Pair of Hyde Park pavilions devoted to contemporary art, architecture, and design
★☆☆Bath's small public art museum has a nice collection including Gainsborough oil pantings
☆☆☆Packed with pictures of old Brits, including the only life portrait of Shakespeare
The great eras, artist, movements, and styles of English art and architecture
An English painter in the Flemish mold, depicting wonderful slices of life in early 18C England
London's great Gothic abbey is packed with the tombs and monuments of British monarchs and some the world's most famous playwrights, poets, scientists, and other notables
England's greatest repository of Old Masters paintings, with works by Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas, and more
The rebirth of Classical ideals lead to a Europe-wide flowering of the arts
This late 19C Romantic offshoot offered a, well, a romanticized reinterpretation of the Medieval style
London's Royal Residence, from the State Rooms and royal gardens to the Queen's Gallery and the (yawnfest) changing of the guard
The royal palace so nice Henry VIII honeymooned here twice—and then three times, and four, and five...
A fantastic bit-of-everything museum including Old Masters paintings
Fantastic modern art museum in a massive former power plant, with blockbuster exhibitions and a fab gift shop and bookstore
A small, free city museum of London life, Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art, and Roman ruins in the basement
The University of London has a spectacular gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings
A vast park in North London, with lovely views, wooded rambles, swimming ponds, cozy pubs, and Old Master art in a genteel manor house
A 17th century manor house in Hampstead Heath with a fabulous free art collection
A gallery of some of the greatest hits of British painting and sculpture
Fantastic, small, bit-of-everything museum—ancient Roman and Egyptian sculptures; paintings by Turner, Reynolds, and Hogarth; architectural remnants and Cantonese furniture—all crammed into the formerly private home of an eclectic collector
An historic London townhouse filled with 18C antiques and French and Old Master paintings—all for free
Pair of Hyde Park pavilions devoted to contemporary art, architecture, and design
Bath's small public art museum has a nice collection including Gainsborough oil pantings
Packed with pictures of old Brits, including the only life portrait of Shakespeare
The great eras, artist, movements, and styles of English art and architecture
An English painter in the Flemish mold, depicting wonderful slices of life in early 18C England