Friday Photo 2022/52

 

sunset, looking towards San Francisco from an Oakland office tower, December 2022

Museum Monday 2022 bonus

 

detail of a Meissen porcelain statue of Saint Wenceslas, patron saint of Bohemia, now in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

I'm posting this year-end bonus as today is the feast of Saint Stephen, the day on which Wenceslas "looked out", in the words of the increasingly obscure Christmas carol, which I posted about here

Museum Monday 2022/52

 

detail of Virgin & Child by Dieric Bouts, in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Friday Photo 2022/51

 

Christmas Tree in City Center, Oakland

Museum Monday 2022/51

 

detail from the central panel of a Last Judgement triptych by an Unknown Tyrolean Master, now in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

("judgment" is the usual spelling in American English but I am following the museum's lead)

Friday Photo 2022/50

 

fallen fig leaves

Museum Monday 2022/50

 

detail of The Adoration of the Shepherds by Joachim Antonisz Wtewael, now in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Friday Photo 2022/49

 

New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, December 2022

Museum Monday 2022/49

 

detail of Shaped Dishes in Imari Taste, an eighteenth-century English imitation of Japanese porcelain, now at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

Friday Photo 2022/48

 

crescent moon over Castro Valley, California