In 2001 on a study abroad our class took a trip to the Château de Chenonceau. This was probably the second or third château we had been to on the weekend long trip, and although they are beautiful, even after the first you start to get pretty numb with everything there is to see. Wandering around the rooms in a fog from visual overload, I ended up in one of the bedrooms where I saw a painting that woke me up. It's called "The Teaching of Love" by Correggio. I'm pretty much a cheeseball so the subject of the painting really hit me. In the painting Cupid is being given a lesson by his parents Venus and Mercury. Just the idea of young love being taught in order to grow/mature was inspiring. What can I say, hopeless romantic here.
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