This happened for me while visiting the Prado museum in Madrid. The whole place just opened up a whole new world for me. 2 paintings in particular were “La Triunfa de la Muerte” by Brugel, and a painting by a man called Grun about the stages in life of a woman from being a pretty young female to an old hag.
After that I visited my local museum in Glasgow. I was going round snapping pictures and later making copies – which I later discovered I shouldn’t have been allowed to do – there were new guards on duty that day !! :-)

Topics: art, galleries, thought, paintings, meaning