To be honest, I’m not really an art person though there was that phase in my life when I did a lot of comic strip doodling. But when you’re at a museum as well-done, designed and as immaculately managed as The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, it’s very hard not to be impressed.
The Museum was one of the five sites included in the Citypass, so I swung by to take a peak. This museum is the largest art museum in New England, and one of the five largest in the country. The Museum is situated along Huntington Avenue, and just a little pass Northeastern University.
The Huntington Avenue entrance is also graced by a statue done by American sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin in 1909 entitled “Appeal to the Great Spirit”.
The Rotunda’s ceiling features one of the most amazing murals I’ve yet seen. It’s by John Singer Sargent, a 19th century American painter very well known for his oil paintings and water colors.
The Museum store. Picked up a couple of things here.:)
Not quite sure what the below exhibit was, but it was in a special room with antique silver ware.
I spent the most time though exploring the exhibition halls housing the 17th to 19th century masterpieces.
Just a very small selection of pictures are included in my post here. The below is Martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus by an unindentifed Neatherlandish artist.
Below: Virgin and Child by Bartolomeo Saurdi, 15th century.
Below: One of the Museum’s most famous pieces on display: Madame Monet in a Japanese Costume by Claude Monet, 19th century.
Below two pictures: a huge hall with dozens of 18th century masterpieces on all four sides of the hall.
More pictures in the Flickr album.:)
I’m impressed by just looking at the photos here :)
The Museum was lovely, yep – though I was trailed around throughout by security suspicious if I was a professional photographer – the Museum does not allow picture-taking for commercial purposes.:)
Even if you were doing it for commercial purposes, how would their security be able to trace?
They had this security guy actually come up and ask me if I was using a D300. I think he needed to confirm if I was using equipment that can also record video (e.g. the D700, D3). Those guys are scary – they’re all armed with ear pieces and intercoms like secret service agents.:)
Ooh, don’t play play! :D