The Third World War Sleeping Sentries

Vienna

When you have visited the great galleries of London, Paris, Rome, Munich, Madrid, New York, Amsterdam, The Hague, Washington, Naples…, it can begin to the masterpieces of ing have been funneled, along with the swarming masses, the money and luxury and power, into the colossal world-cities that characterize our epoch as they have a number of other epochs long since buried under the storms of seem that all of Western paint-time. As you walk through the scores of rooms of the Prado, the Louvre, of London’s or our own National Gallery, it seems incredible that mankind should have been able to produce so many hundreds of works of almost absolute genius as hang, one after another, along the walls of these central banks of aesthetic de-posit.

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Vienna

When you have visited the great galleries of London, Paris, Rome, Munich, Madrid, New York, Amsterdam, The Hague, Washington, Naples…, it can begin to the masterpieces of ing have been funneled, along with the swarming masses, the money and luxury and power, into the colossal world-cities that characterize our epoch as they have a number of other epochs long since buried under the storms of seem that all of Western paint-time. As you walk through the scores of rooms of the Prado, the Louvre, of London’s or our own National Gallery, it seems incredible that mankind should have been able to produce so many hundreds of works of almost absolute genius as hang, one after another, along the walls of these central banks of aesthetic de-posit.