Madrid and our recent visit

Taking advantage of the gift of a hotel stay we spent last weekend in Madrid visiting museums and some of the other notable places in the city. The coronavirus outbreak has us concerned of course, and today (Wednesday) it has even worsened somewhat. However, the trip was made in line with the general knowledge that the best course of action is calmness and cleanliness. The exhibition “Rembrandt and Amsterdam Portraiture” at the Thyssen Museum told me a lot about both large and small scale pictures of people—people and their activities, because human actions are naturally associated with what we look like, an obvious context. Rembrandt used postures and body language very intelligently in this respect. The Museum's website has a virtual pre-visit, so I'll end with that for the moment. (Link >>>

https://www.museothyssen.org/en/exhibitions/rembrandt-and-amsterdam-portraiture-1590-1670