Thursday, February 18, 2010

Palacio de Pena - Sintra, Portugal

This is a major work of early Romanticism. I think it's exactly what you get when someone rich and powerful doesn't want your typical natural tones and spiked point-to-the-heavens niches. This king wanted a big bright multicolored fairy-tale castle nearly half a kilometer up from the village of Sintra. He painted nymphs in a studio overlooking a very mythological forested hilltop. You can hear him saying: "yeah, mix the styles up, throw in some red, some yellow, some blue, give me some enchanted forests to chase my mistresses in if ever i have any. I want a studio. Oh, and put the whole thing up there."
Where the f*** is my dragon?

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