Category Archive: Great Britain

Not only seeing the faces of famous people on paintings is a worthwhile, but also seeing how people dressed through the history was also meaningful.  I visited the Portrait Gallery, a gallery that is filled with paintings of well-known people including Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespheare, and even George Washington!  As I said, I really enjoyed […]

I visited the Buckingham Palace where Queen Elizabeth II lives and its surrounding areas.  Of course, I couldn’t go inside, but at least I got to see the outside part which was pretty cool.  It’s certainly a MASSIVE palace!  I think it’s probably even bigger than the White House.

The British Museum is one of the best places to review the Survey of Western Art History I, an art history course that studies art from the prehistoric era until gothic era.  This museum is glorified to own many incredible artifacts and art pieces from the Assyrian era to the Ancient Greek era.  To my […]

Last Wednesday, my family and I wandered around at the Soho area and at the Covent Garden.  These areas are just filled with shops and restaurants.

After all those years of seeing a magnificent architectural piece in textbooks in Art History classes and doing some research on it for a research paper that I did a year ago, I finally got to see a massive Baroque cathedral, St. Paul’s Cathedral. This cathedral is dedicated to St. Paul, obviously.  The architecture is […]

Visited the Tower of London.

To be honest, Shakespeare is not my favorite playwriter as I’m not so great at comprehending stories written in old English, and I never became attached to his stories as the subject matter of his stories are usually too creepy for me.  How is it possible for Romeo and Juliet to fall in love within […]

I’m standing in a closed bubble made of glass, and I’m going up and up.  The sunset is just perfect. The sky is filled with vibrant colors such as bright orange and pink. Lights begin to go on throughout the city of London.  Boats are flowing up and down the Thames River.  The Parliament is […]

I was sitting on a couch in middle of a room in a museum and staring at a magnificent painting that I always adored.  The lights are beautifully dramatic.  Chiaroscuro is stunningly done as there are wonderful transitions from light to dark throughout the painting.  The reactions of people on their faces speak with a […]

I was dreadfully tired.  I felt like I needed to close my eyes.  My head felt heavy and was going to fall off of my body.  I was barely conscious, but I managed to keep myself up to tour through the Westminster Abbey, a large gothic church in the Westminister area of London.  This church […]