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Love And Monuments

27/10/2014

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A rainy, blustery day with follies, monuments and some grand topiary, welcome to Shugborough hall.
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One of the rooms had been stripped of all furniture and most fixtures, gloomy but atmospheric and unusual to see a room in this sort of state.
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'Love conquers all' (Venus Directing Cupids to Chastise Pan), by Filippo Lauri, 17thC
There were a couple of statues and paintings that grabbed me though they felt very incidental in the house itself. The grounds were much more interesting. Many of the NT houses are packing for the the winter 'putting the house to sleep' as they say, so this might be my last NT visit for a while. A break gives me a chance to really start thinking about my trips, reviewing all of my photographs and also decide which houses I want to revisit particularly for making longer films.
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Cupid and Psyche Embracing, French School, 1770-79
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Cat Monument in the grounds.
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Mirrors are everywhere here, decorated and ornately shaped, in their refection hallways seem endless and lights are brighter.
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You can see more pictures from Shugborough Hall on my Flickr here. 
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    Corinna Spencer
    Contemporary artist.


    The representation of women in historical settings both remembered and long forgotten, real and fictional,
    their loves, lives, obsessions and deaths are central to my work.
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