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All The Beauty In The World

All The Beauty In The World by Patrick Bingley  is the next book club book, and it's good it's short because I got it 13 days before we meet, and I had a day where I finished up another book for another book club.  I once did the NY Times challenge of looking at a painting for 10 minutes, so I look at the Greco painting for quite a while, while I notice a lot of things about it (See links below). The paintings kind of come alive when you take some time with them, and not just move on when they get boring. I'm often too interested in consuming everything, instead of really grokking one painting when I'm present at a museum. Moving forward I'm going to be more strategic.  Links to first 4 references: View of Toledo by El Greco at Met . Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints  Raphael. Detail below Madonna and Child by Duccio Little Dancer of Fourteen Years Degas Links: The book  pdf A  favorites  of Bringley's with little essay. The Harvest is his fav...