Beyond Monet: You Can Smell it in the Paintings
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Jim Fleming, a historian at Colby College who focuses on weather and climate, closely examines Monet’s paintings of snowy landscapes, and talks about how the artist captured the humid haze of Venice and the “pea soup” smog of London.
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