Friday Photo 2021/31

 

a golfer in Lincoln Park, San Francisco, July 2021

Museum Monday 2021/30

 

a detail of the Botticelli-inflected Love & the Maiden, by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, now at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

Friday Photo 2021/30

 

crow on a roof, San Leandro California, July 2021

Museum Monday 2021/29

 

I was actually in a museum this week, for the first time in nearly a year and a half, so this detail of a mosaic panel from the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii comes from Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave, on view at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco through 29 August. This astonishing tableau is one of the treasures of the exhibit, as demonstrated by its many manifestations in the gift shop, and no wonder: not only are the very tiny stones arranged to give an accurate depiction of each of the many species shown, but each fish also expresses a surprising amount of personality, an attribute not usually thought of in connection with sea life.

Friday Photo 2021/29

 

trumpet flowers, July 2021

Museum Monday 2021/28

 

a detail of Clyfford Still's PH-585 (1952-A), at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Friday Photo 2021/28

 

ripening pears, July 2021

(the variety is Beurre d'Anjou)

Museum Monday 2021/27

 

a detail of The Birth of Venus (or possibly the triumph of Galatea?) by Nicolas Poussin, once in the collection of Catherine the Great and now in the possession of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Friday Photo 2021/27

 a bank façade in Philadelphia, from a trip there in 2009