Saint John the Baptist in alabaster: a Spanish sculpture from around 1550, now in the Art Institute of Chicago
30 November 2020
27 November 2020
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
20 November 2020
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
13 November 2020
09 November 2020
Museum Monday 2020/45
detail of a quilt from Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
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