As a lover of ribbed vaulting in basically any form, I was entranced by the King's College chapel's ceilings. The windows weren't so bad, either.
I overheard a tour guide talking about Rubens' Adoration of the Magi (above), a rather recent gift. He said that it was uninsurable, because the price was too high (how is that even possible--can't someone insure everything?). He also said that the painting was once attacked with a knife and carved into. He said that you can still see the trace of what they carved if you look closely.
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Seeing buildings like that always makes me wish I'd decided to throw practicalities to the wind and run off to school there, just so I could sit in buildings like those all day (though doubtless they'd have looked less charming once the bills came due). I do have to question the wisdom of advertising the fact that the Rubens is so valuable as to be uninsurable. Don't they worry that someone will take that as a challenge?
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