In which a young noble starts telling the story as to how he came to pay penance in the mountains, but never finishes. The theft of Sancho’s donkey, and Don Quixote feigns madness.
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They meet 12 convicts, who Don Quixote frees before they stone him. On the run, they head for the mountains where they come across gold and a dead mule.
The pair grow scared of noises in the night. When they finally investigate, it’s just a cloth mill. They meet with a barber wearing his bowl on his head, which become the legendary helmet.
They see the dust of two armies marching against one another, but they turn out to be flocks of sheep. As they travel on through the night they come across a group of ghosts.
In Florence, stories told in paintings became increasingly secular, and ingeniously integrated multiple scenes from the single story into one painting.
After being badly beaten by a group of muleteers, the pair stay at an inn to recover. But the night proves a nightmare, and escaping the next day isn’t easy either.
Two major works in his later years: ‘Work’, showing a crowded street in Victorian London, and 12 large murals for Manchester Town Hall.
In which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza attend the burial of a local shepherd who died of unrequited love for a young shepherdess.
After painting his masterpiece ‘The Last of England’, he returned to landscapes made with great attention to detail, in front of the motif. And they sold.
After training in Belgium, he painted a series of narrative works, then a finely detailed landscape of a view over London. Success eluded him.
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