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The highlight of visiting is getting to experience these ca. 1850-52 landscape murals in the foyer by African American artist Robert S. Duncanson, who was only in his late 20s when commissioned to paint these!

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2020-01-13

The permanent collection of is diverse, and at times rather surprising. The enamels captivated me, including this striking detail of Marcus Curtius from the early 1600s.

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2020-01-13

I was just reading about the other day and wondered why I wasn't more familiar with her work. had at least 6 of her canvases on exhibit, including this exemplary, and very Maine, Diana of the Sea, 1940.

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2019-12-13

I mean, look at these details! (Again folks, this is at the Geological Museum.)

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2019-08-29

Another great history museum in Stockholm: . A colossal 1925 statue of King Gustav Vasa, sculpted by Carl Milles, greets you upon entering, and dominates the impressively voluminous space.

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2019-08-20

The has a swoon-worthy gallery of paintings. I always love it when they include hints of somewhere in the background, as in Laocoön, ca. 1610-14 & Saint Martin and the Beggar, 1597-99.

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2019-04-25

I always appreciate getting to see the work of from the 1930s-40s contextualized with his peers, and was thrilled to see at , for the first time in person, his startlingly brutal Herrin Massacre, 1940, on loan from .

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2019-04-14

Learned that rarely exhibited his oil sketches in public, but he did show this undulating Christ on the Cross, 1845 in a prominent exhibit in Paris. I loved seeing it here, next to the fully developed canvas from 1846. (Why I love retrospectives.)

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2018-12-16

Lovely little exhibition with loans from & . Beautiful illustrations of from C19th to modern day. On until 5th Jan 2019.

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2018-12-13

One of the highlights of exploring was getting to see the fascinating It's outside the main area & much less frequented by tourists, which made it even more exciting to admire. There is even some ancient graffiti being preserved there.

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2018-10-15

I swung by the Palazzo Barberini () today and spent some time thinking about these 2 paintings. The 1st, Antonello de Saliba, 1520, the 2nd, Francisco Pagano, 1472-1476. So different, yet the head tilt & mouth are nearly identical.

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2018-10-11

...There were several brilliant galleries dedicated to the art of puppetry & marionettes. 1st pic is of curious 19th/early 20th century marionettes, 2nd is of 18th century examples, & 3rd pic is a theme I sensed in the painted backdrops for marionette shows 🧔🏻⚔️🧔🏻

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2018-10-10

...Discovered in Ostia in 1959, it's the most intact and complete example of inlaid marble decoration (opus sectile) ever found. It's beautifully presented and documented (in Italian & braille.) Surprising details include portraits, attacking lions & even octopus!

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2018-10-09

One thing I particularly like about museums like the Galleria Doria Pamphilij, is the overabundance of detail everywhere: ceilings, odd corners (hello, St. Sebastian!), patterned decorative wall painting & sculptural curtain tie-backs.

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2018-10-08

Though a common design strategy, I still love it when museums use exhibition objects as clear inspiration for the graphic identity of an exhibition. Here, the newly opened "Feathers: Fashion and the Fight for Wildlife" .

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2018-04-07

Ahhhh... Sometimes you get to sit in the El Greco gallery all by yourself. Detail, Laocoön, ca. 1610-1614.

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2018-02-20

Even without reading the exhibition label, it's clear from the eyes alone that this is a sketch of a mesmerizing psychic. Table-turning, or Portrait of a Medium, ca. 1906. 🌀🌀

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2018-02-04

...it's not all drawings though. Many of the paintings are on loan from private collections, so this exhibition is a unique opportunity to experience them. I was immediately captivated by the jovial mug of Docteur Devaraigne, 1917.

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2018-02-02

Lost myself , my 1st visit, spent 5 hrs there, missed lunch, and only left to catch a train. Art exhaustion is real, but it's my fave way to burn. Detail, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Clytemnestra Hesitating before Stabbing the Sleeping Agamemnon, ~1817.

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2017-11-12

Detail, Achelous and Hercules, 1947. Love this story as imagined through Benton's Midwestern lens.

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2017-09-04