She could tell me the names of almost all the Goyas in the Prado.  This is Saturno (Saturn devouring his children).  Of Goya's Negras (the dark paintings), this was her favorite.

We command attention (though note that We receive more from those in our employ rather than those in Our family). We are the center in the way the dance master is the center of attention in Degas' "The Dance School"(?)  

Each figure in the court pays his or her own degree of attention to Us.  Maybe Sister Wendy is right, though: the dog, though it is closest to us in the foreground, pays less attention to us and seems completely resigned to his position.

(The Knight with his hand on his Chest.)

by El Greco

I sometimes look for the paintings that seem haunted--as if the artist did such a wonderful job, the subject of the portrait chose to stay around in spirit  after death to live on in the painting. 

This painting will break your heart as you stand before it. Your eyes and mind will shift back and forth between the Christlike man in the white shirt, the de-humanized row of musketeers, the lantern that illuminates the sin and the blood-red paint scratched across the sand as if Goya had scraped the canvas and allowed it to  bleed.

I was almost completely museum'd out by the time I got to Scotland at the end of the Summer.  

But you go anyway.

Then I came around a corner into a spacious room where this woman presided.  You cannot believe the skin tones of her arms as seen through the dress sleeves--and the lavender.  This lavender is the lavender of one of Van Gogh's skies, but softer and more subtle.

The whole painting is amazing to me especially in the shift of focus.  The bottom of her dress and even the wall behind her are drawn in a soft focus while the features of her face are sharp.  The other objects at the same distance from us as her face such as the printing on the upholstery and the bow of her sash are left as abstract impressions...

Go see this.