Giverny and Claude Monet
Our last shore excursion was in Giverny, a village in the region of Normandy. Claude Monet lived and worked here from 1883 until his death in 1926. He was a French painter and the founder of Impressionism painting. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting, “Impression, Sunrise.” Monet’s ambition to document the French countryside led him to paint the same scene many times so he could capture the changing light at different times of the day and…