a detail of the Gymnich Mirror from eighteenth century Germany, now in the Legion of Honor in San Francisco; the bird at the top is a quacking duck, from the Von Gymnich coat of arms
09 August 2021
06 August 2021
02 August 2021
Museum Monday 2021/31
a detail of Rabbit-Hunting with Ferrets, a fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish tapestry now in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
30 July 2021
26 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
23 July 2021
19 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.
16 July 2021
12 July 2021
09 July 2021
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