Travelog post for: Chompers

Goodday!

Today we had a cultural day; we went to the Museum of Groningen. They had an exibition of paintings from J. W. Waterhouse. He was a painter who lived in the end of the 19th and the begin of the 20th century. The exibition was called Enchanted by Women. And we where allowed to take photo's inside the museum, check it out!

This painting is called The Lady of Shallott. She is a woman from the legend of King Arthur. Waterhouse mostly painted women from legend and mythic stories. And Marjolein loves that kind of stories, so we didn't get out of the Museum soon haha.



This painting is also called The Lady of Shallott. This is Waterhouse is most famous painting and it has hung in the Tate Gallery in London for over a century but it made a trip to Groningen, that's so special!



I really liked this painting. It's called 'Lamia (on her knees)' and was painted in 1905.



On the website about J. W. Waterhouse this story is written beneath:

If questioning would make us wise no eyes would ever gaze in eyes; if all our tale were told in speech no mouths would wonder each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh and love not bound in hearts of flesh no aching breasts would yearn te meet and find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows the secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need to thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

Then seek not, the "if" and "Why" I love you now untill I die. For I must love because I live And life in me is what you give. - Bill Archer

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