30 November 2020

Museum Monday 2020/48

 


Saint John the Baptist in alabaster: a Spanish sculpture from around 1550, now in the Art Institute of Chicago

23 November 2020

Museum Monday 2020/47

 


a detail from Centerpiece: The Scarf Dance (Surtout: le jeu de l'écharpe), designed by Léonard-Agathon van Weydeveld and manufactured by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; seen at the Art Institute of Chicago

16 November 2020

Museum Monday 2020/46

 


Saint Elizabeth of Hungary by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, now in the Early Italian Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; I think the backdrop is the early eighteenth-century French chasuble fragment also in that room

06 November 2020

02 November 2020

Museum Monday 2020/44

 


Apollo chases Daphne on a nineteenth century Venetian mirror, now in the Raphael Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston