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Vox Hunt: By My Favorite Artist
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Submitted by Miss Parker.
Monet - The sunlight pierces the smoggy sky over London's Houses of Parliament.
While Monet is most famous for his waterlilies, he painted in London between 1899 and 1901. There is a whole series of the Houses of Parliment in different conditions and time of day.
Interestingly there is now a belief that he could have inadvertently also recorded actual weather / pollution conditions present in London at that time period.
New Scientist, 09-Aug-06: Monet's art may reveal Victorian London's smog -> Journal reference: Proceedings of the Royal Society A (DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1754)
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