Oxford

We went out to Oxford today to see the Great Flemish Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens at the Ashmolean museum. 
The exhibition was well worth seeing. The main picture is a collage of two exhibits showing  a preparatory drawing of a male nude torso standing in a certain position, possibly having been asked to haul on a rope to emphasise his muscles, and the same drawing incorporated into the later painting The Raising of the Cross ( 1610-11) by Peter Paul Rubens.
The preparatory drawings which could then be seen in later completed works are stunningly detailed and beautiful in their own right. 
Extras, the hat shop in Ship Street opposite the pub where we had our lunch and also the flower stall in the covered market, which I love.