(I was ready to identify the artist as Pieter bBreugel/b the Elder; however, a Wikipedia entry claims that this attribution is now considered to be highly doubtful. I tried in vain to find additional information about this controversy. ... Later in the novel, when Jamie exclaims that he is falling in love with Jura, their bvacation/b destination, Isabel quotes the following, again from Auden: Love requires an Object, But this varies so much, Almost, I imagine, Anything will do: ...
Sunday at the Liechtenstein palace offered the royal art collection, a special exhibit on their family bestate/b gardens, and a Bach concert on antique instruments. I sat on a gilt chair in a ballroom and sketched away. ...
One is now much less likely to encounter an overweight still life of fruit, flowers and dead game in a banker's dining room, or the re-creation of a cabinet of tiny paintings in the tiny room that the bestate/b agent defines as a study. b.../b
