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Saturday, December 15th, 2007Claude Monet (French pronounced [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term […]
Chocolate Rabbit Sculpture
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007This is a chocolate rabbit sculpture which my second brother had made. He gave it to the children to eat last month when he sent Valerie and Vanessa to my house for tuition. I did not eat it. But the four children in the house broke it up and they shared it. […]
Winged Lion Sculpture
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Avenue Gardens and The English Gardens (Regent’s Park)
The Avenue Gardens, also known as the ‘Italian Gardens’, were designed in the mid 19th century by the Victorian garden designer Andrew Nesfield, who also designed the Palm House in Kew. His son, Markham Nesfield, landscaped the adjacent English Gardens. Both were restored in the 1990s with the […]
Kensington Palace Sculptures
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Kensington Palace, an intimate royal palace, was Princess Diana’s residence in London and place of birth of Queen Victoria. Kensington Palace has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. The first sovereign residents here were William and Mary in 1689. Queen Victoria was born here in 1837 […]
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