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- Le Givre
- Sandvika, Norway
- Man Sitting
- Whistler's Mother
- Chaumes a Cordeville
- Sur la Plage
- Fruits sur une Table
- Portrait of the Artist
- Coquetieots
- Carreis-Saint-Denis
- Les Deu Fillettes
- L Nuit étoilée, Arles
- L' Evasion de Rochefort
- Danse a la Campagne
- Nature Morte aux Oignons
- Portrait de l'Artiste
- Vus du Viaduc & Aries
- Le Pave De Chailly
- Louvre & More
- The Hermitage - St. Petersburg, Russia
- Entrance
- Pillars Near Entrance
- Royal Carriage
- Royal Carriage
- Chandalier
- Table With a Story of History...
- Urn
- Family & Friends at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Madonna
- Modanna Withi Child
- Madonna With Child (with frame)
- The Prodigal Son
- Prodigal Son
- Father of Prodigal Son
- Prodigal Son
- The Sacrifice of Isacc
- Hermitage Ceiling
- Our Tour
- Hermitage Ceiling
- Hermitage Sculpures
- Pillar Capitol
- Hermitage Hallway
- Armor
- Armor Soldiers on Armored Horses
- Stairway with Pillars
- Stairway
- Hermitage Courtyard
- Courtyard Closeup
- Courtyard with Pillar
- Base of the Courtyard Pillar
- Archway and Chandalier in Gold
- Gallery of Fine Artifacts
- Fine China
- Gold Inlaid Celing
- Ceiling
- Ornate Wall
- Gold Inlaid Pillars & Chandaliers
- Ornate Chair
- Royal Throne
- Less Fancy
- The Vatican Museum(s)
- From the Egyptian Museum
- Vatican’s Sphere Within a Sphere
- Calcare
- Statue of Neptune
- From the Egyptian Museum
- Hall of Busts
- Hall of Busts 2
- Hall of Bust 3
- Roman Busts in the Vatican
- Roman Statue
- STATUE OF THE EMPEROR TIBERIUS
- VIEW OF ROME FROM VATICAN
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- EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY EXAMPLE
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- Ceiling
- Dome in the Vatican
- Dome in the Vatican 2
- Vatican Mosaic (floor)
- Another Vatican Dome
- Vatican Ceiling
- Ceiling
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- Marble Flooring Example
- Hall of Maps
- Hall of Maps 2
- Hall of Maps 3
- Hall of Maps 4
- Hall of Maps 5
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- Raphael’s School of Athens
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- Sistine Chapel
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- 2nd Egyptian Porphery Example
- Vatican Library Entrance
- Sprial Staircase
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- D' Orsay
- US
- Getty Museums
- Getty Villa Slideshow
- Courtyard
- Inner Court Yard
- Inner Court Yard 2
- The Long View
- Exterior
- Stylish Seating
- Hall
- Exterior 2
- Hall 2
- Exterior 3
- Garden, Reflecting Pool and Home
- Reflecting Pool 1
- Reflecting Pool 2
- Reflecting Pool 3
- Exterior 4
- Reflecting Pool 4
- Reflecting Pool 5
- The Tickets
- Reflecting Pool 6
- Reflecting Pool with Sculpture
- Entrance to Stylish Seating
- Getty Museum - Photos
- Entrance
- Getty Museum Architecture
- Getty Museum Architecture
- Irises
- Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light
- Wheatstacks, Snow Effect Morning
- Hermitage Garden, Masin Rouge
- Sunrise
- Portrait of Anthony Valabreque
- Portrait of Madame Rounet
- Getrty Museum Architecture
- The Royal End
- Still Life with Apples
- Waiting for the Veridict
- The Shade of Samuel Invoked by Saul
- Christ with the Crown of Thorns
- Portrait of Albert Cahen d'Anvers
- Dancer Taking a Bow
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- Portrait of a Young Man
- Portrait of a Young Man
- A Young Scholar & His Tutor
- Portrait of a Rabbi
- An Old Man in Military Costume
- Sampson with the Jawbone
- Head of Christ
- The Coronation of the Virgin with Saints
- Getty Villa Slideshow
- Chicago Institute of Art
- Acrobats at Circus
- A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- Paris Street Rainy Day
- Young Woman Sewing
- Cliffwall at Pourville
- The Petite Creuse River
- Bodiferra
- Boats at the Beach at Eretat
- Les Andelyn
- Wood Tankard & Meta Pitcher
- The Drinkers
- The Garden
- Madame
- Terrace & Upper Deck
- Peasant Woman Diggin in Front of Her Cottage
- Eldorado
- Moulin de la Galette
- Equestrian
- Houses of Parliamment London
- Waterloo Bridge
- Haystacks with Snow Effect
- PC290210
- American Gothic
- Nightowls
- Rocks at Port G
- B Field
- Self-Portrait - Van Gogh
- Nelson - Adkins Museum (Kansas City) Photos
- Hallway with Pillars
- Guitar Player, 1928
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- Landscape
- Olive Orchard
- Melancholic
- Portrait of Gybertas de Groat
- Mont Seinte-Victoire
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- Chrysanthemums
- Portrait of Richard Galle
- Wooded Landscape
- The Garden of Les Mathurins at Pointoise
- The Embankment at Billancourt
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- View of Lake Garda
- Christ on the Sea of Galilee
- The Fish Market at Harding Beach
- Outlet of Wyburne Lake
- Portrait of Emily St. Clare as a Bacchante
- Denver Museum
- Museum Exterior
- Denver Library Exterior
- Exterior Sculpture Denver Museum
- Museum Exterior
- Denver Library ( & Others)
- Piero del Pugliese & Filippino Lippi
- Madonna & Child with Saints
- Coronation of the Virgin
- Esther and Ahasuerus
- Four Crowned Saints Before Diocletian
- St. Catherien of Siena Exorcising a Possessed Woman
- Potrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap
- Potrait of Don Diego Felix de Esquivel y Aldama
- Childhood Idyll
- The Radcliffe Family
- Elizabeth Poulett
- Alice Barnham and Her Two Sons , Steven and Martin
- Unknown
- Henry the VIII
- Mary Radclyffe
- Civita Castellana
- Via Appia
- Dream of Arcadia
- Unknown
- Water Lily Pond
- Landscape, Horta de Ebro (Pablo Picasso)
- From My Studio Window
- Waterloo Bridge
- The Gulf of Spezia
- Arrangment in Blue
- Still Life with Grapes
- Still Life with the Telegraph
- Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge
- Autumn Poplars
- View of the Certose di San Martino with Castel Sant' Elmo, Naples
- The Triumphs of Fame, Time and Divinity
- Portrait of a Woman
- The Metropolitan Musuem
- Death of Socrates
- Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
- Manuel Osorio Marique de Zuniga
- The Harvesters
- Courtyard of Sculptures
- Courtyard of Scuptures (another angle)
- Hallway
- Currently Unknown
- Currently Unknown
- Christ & Cross
- Tristan Bernard au Velodrome Buffalo
- Egyptian Sarcophagus Lid
- Seated Egyptian
- Currently Unknown
- Currently Unknown
- Corinthian Column Capitol
- Marble Column from Temple of Aretemas at Sardis
- Currently Unknown
- Portrait of George Washington
- Washington Crosses the Delaware
- Currently Unknown
- Banks of the Loing
- Egyptian
- Egyptian Statue
- Egyptian Goddess Statues
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- Milwaukee Art Museum (Exterior)
- Exterior
- Milwaukee Art Museum (Interior)
- Interior 1
- Interior 2
- Interior 3
- Interior 5
- Interior 6
- Interior 7
- Abraham's Sacrifice of Issac, ca. 1700
- St. Francis of Assisi in His Tomb, 1670/74
- Henry VII, ca. 1500-25
- Achilles Discovered by Ulysses Among the Daughters of Lycomedes, ca. 1690
- Christ Before the High Priest, ca. 1633
- Portrait of an Oriental, ca. 1665
- The Marriage Trap, ca 1640-60
- Winter in Russia, before 1885
- La Vallee de l'Ahr, 1841
- The Latest Acquisition, ca. 1891
- View of Bougival, 1873
- Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect ca. 1900 (dated 1903)
- Path and Hill, Pointoise, 1882
- Sunset Landscape, ca. 1855/60
- Haymaking Time (La Fenaison), 1897
- Winter Scene, ca. 1909
- St. Louis Art Museum
- Art Hill - Favorite Sledding Hill
- Saint Louis Statue at top of Art Hill
- Main Building Entrance, St. Louis Art Museum
- Saint Louis Statue at Art Hill
- Madonna & Child Enthroned with Saints
- The Madonna with Child and Saints
- Portrait of a Woman
- Portrait of a Young Man (perhaps an artist)
- Christ Expelling the Money-Changers from the Temple
- Vincent Voiture as St. Louis
- Portrait of a Musician
- King Francis I of France
- Interior of St. Peter’s, Rome
- Portrait of a Woman
- Charing Cross Bridge
- The Promenade with the Railroad Bridge
- Stairway at Auvers
- Factories at Clichy
- Landscape with a Horse
- Water Lilies
- Getty Museums
- European
- Academics
- Faith & Academics
- Music
- Classic
- Classic 2
- Clarie de Lune - Piano
- The Swan (Saint-Saens) - Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott
- Ave Maria - Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott
- Adagio (Albioni) - Hauser
- The Falls - Yo-Yo Ma & Gabriel
- Claire DE lune -london PHILARMONIXC
- Claire de Lune - Holes in the Floor - cello
- Clarie de Lune -Cho
- Claire de Lune - Philadelphia Orchestra
- Classical Guitar & Flamenco
- Concierto D’Aranjuez (2nd Movement), Played by John Williams
- Asturias - Isaac Albeniz, Played by John Williams
- Asturias (Leyenda) - Albeiniz, Played by a younger John Williams
- Asturias - Albeniz played by Wiktoria Szubelak
- Concierto D’Aranjuez, Played by Paco de Lucia (partial)
- Leyenda - Isaac Albeniz, Played by Segovia
- J.S. Bach by Segovia
- Farruca - Carlos Montoya
- Concierto de Aranjuez played by John Williams
- Concierto en D Major - Vivaldi played by John Williams
- Paco de Lucia
- Sevilla - John Williams
- Cavatina - John Williams
- John Williams - Documentary
- Scott Jams Electric
- Classical Guitar & Flemenco 2
- Winter - Vivaldi - Boyer & Samuelito
- Clair de Lune - Enea Leone
- Claire de Lune - Justyna Sobczak & Blazej Sudnikowicz
- Clair de Lune - Debussy (guitar)
- Asturias by Isaac Albeniz - Ana Vidovic
- Zyryab - Boyer & Samuelito
- The Sound of Silence - Boyer
- Autumn Leaves - played by Yenne Lee
- Spanish Eyes - played by Esteban
- Godfather Theme - played by Michael Marc
- La Poloma - played by Esteban
- La Paloma - played by Esteban
- La Paloma
- Stairway to Heaven - played by Michael Lucarelli
- Dust in the Wind - played by Michael Lucarelli
- Can’t Help Falling in Love - played by Michael Lucarelli
- Let it Be - Played by Miachel Lucarelli
- Ave Maria - played by Michael Lucarelli
- Popular
- Spiritual and Religious
- Be Still My Soul
- Be Thou My Vision - Celtic Hymn
- Just As I Am - Celtic Hymn
- When Peace Like A River
- Abide With Me
- And Can it Be
- Great is Thy Faithfulness
- A Mighty Fortress is our God
- Jerusalem
- Crown Him With Many Crowns
- Amazing Grace
- Amazing Grace
- Amazing Grace
- To God Be the Glory
- Ave Verum - Mozart
- Wagner’s Tannhauser Pilgrim’s Chorus
- Jazz
- Opera (or Opera like)
- Smiles
- Movie Favorites & More
- 50’s TV Shows I Grew Up Watching
- Library
- Sports
- Video Shorts
- Potpourri
- Some Travel Holidays
- Rome: The Borgehese Garden (2016) & Travel to Florence
- Paris: Rodin Museum (2003)
- Venice (2016)
- Out of Africa (1986)
- Amsterdam 1999
- London Trip, Part 2 (2001) Sherlock Holmes, Oxford U.
- Paris: D’Orsay Museum (2003)
- Hungary (1979)
- Highlights from the Hermitage 1999
- London Trip, Part 4 (2001) Hampton Court Palace
- Visiting Tblisi, Georgia (1989)
- East Germany & Berlin 1979
- Brief Tour of Arrowhead Springs Grounds (Fall 1989)
- Versailles (2003)
- London Trip, Part 5 (2001) Tower of London
- Hawaii - Kauai (1996)
- Video Slide Shows
- Parents
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