This is why audio tours and the “focus on the famous” theory of art education sucks. Everyone in this viewer cloud is probably already pretty familiar with this painting before they walked into the museum, but they choose to give it all of their attention, while they ignore much, if not most of the collection.
View the picture that Michele is taking in the above photo here.
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