National Gallery

It’s free!

Velazquez. It’s beautiful, but there’s still something a little disturbing about her juxtaposed face and ass. 

Caravaggio.

Triangles of hands and faces.

Chair for scale; next two pics are details.

I was in heaven. This whole room gave me shivers. These are by Pieter de Hooch, and I wrote about them both in college.

De Hooch was a master of the doorkijke, a view through a door from one space into another.