Peter Greenaway, is a British film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Mannerism painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death.
Greenaway in 2007
Greenaway at the 44th Venice Film Festival (1987)
Night Watch by Rembrandt
The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese (mid-16th century)
Forest School, Walthamstow
Forest School is a private day school in Walthamstow in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The school occupies a large campus around its original Grade II listed Georgian and Victorian terraced buildings. The school has more than 1,430 pupils, aged 4 to 18, split equally between boys and girls.
Forest School c. 1858
The common at the front of the school was the site for all early Forest cricket and football matches.