Vanessa Bell

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

Overnight, Picasso became notorious—except to the Bloomsbury painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, whose work almost immediately reflected his influence; and to Bloomsbury groupies Clive Bell, Maynard Keynes and Harry Norton, who bought his work.

A Shortsighted View of Picasso Paul Levy 2012

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

This year, it makes history by leaving its original home at Garsington Manor, the one-time summer retreat of the Bloomsbury Group, which included Garsington owner Lady Ottoline Morrell, artist Vanessa Bell and writers E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf.

Eat, Drink and Be Entertained Paul Levy 2011

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011