Staring up at the soaring towers of Rouen cathedral through tall windows thrown open to give a clear view, I was awed by the challenge before me.
On the very spot where Claude Monet spent months working on more than 30 paintings of the same scene, I was nervously poising my paintbrush trying to create my own impression of the Gothic facade he painted at different times of the day as the seasons changed in the 1890s.
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The father of Impressionism was more focused on capturing the light falling on the cathedral than on the edifice itself, and the project gave him nightmares.