Posts from the ‘museums’ category

Isabella’s Courtyard

Thursday, July 28th, 2016

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New Britain Museum of American Art

Monday, July 25th, 2016

Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

In the past few days, we visited three museums that we’d never been to before, and we were pleasantly surprised to find that two of the three museums both have a copy of one of our favorite sculptures at the MFA! Turns out, there are a lot of copies of this sculpture and it was delightful to run in to two of them, two days in a row, in two different cities.

Just for fun, here’s a list of all of the versions of Randolph Rogers’ Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii that I’ve seen so far:

Nydia at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

Nydia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: (photo taken in 2012)

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Nydia
at the Princeton University Art Museum
(photos taken in 2016):


Nydia
at the New Britain Museum of Art
(photos taken in 2016):


Nydia
at the Chicago Art Institute
(photo taken in 2017):

Princeton University Art Museum

Sunday, July 24th, 2016

Brandywine River Museum of Art

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

Isabella’s greenhouse

Thursday, July 21st, 2016

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Boston Athenaeum

Monday, July 18th, 2016

Third Thursday

Thursday, June 16th, 2016

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Gardner Third Thursday

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

Another magical evening at the Gardner Museum!

Inside Isabella’s Greenhouse

Saturday, April 30th, 2016

I finally got the chance to pop over to the Gardner Museum since they started allowing visitors to go inside the greenhouse, not just look in through the glass corridor. It was such a wonderful treat to smell the flowers and get right up close to see all of the beautiful details.

MFA Art in Bloom

Saturday, April 30th, 2016

Mega Cities Asia

Friday, April 22nd, 2016

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Intersections at the Peabody Essex Museum

Saturday, April 2nd, 2016

We spent the afternoon at the Peabody Essex Museum to see the exhibit Intersections, which brought us back to the Alhambra in Spain.

Gardner Museum

Saturday, March 26th, 2016

Photos from two weekends volunteering at the Gardner Museum

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Peabody Essex Museum

Saturday, December 26th, 2015

We took Brian’s mom up to Salem to visit her old neighborhood, see the Peabody Essex Museum, and have a delicious lunch by the harbor!

Amaryllises at the Gardner

Sunday, December 13th, 2015

Gardner courtyard

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

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Isabella’s courtyard at night

Sunday, November 1st, 2015

The warm orange lights brighten the courtyard at the Gardner Museum as the sun sets around closing time (5pm) on the first day of daylight savings. If it has to get dark early, it might as well look like this:

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Close-ups at the Gardner

Saturday, October 24th, 2015

I had a wonderful morning at the Gardner Museum attending a training session for the brand new gorgeous exhibit Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, and I got to take some fun close-ups of beautiful details in the exhibit, and in the courtyard.

Autumn at the Gardner

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

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Denver Art Museum

Sunday, August 23rd, 2015

The Met

Saturday, August 8th, 2015

While we were in the city to meet our newest little cousin, we squeezed in a magnificent trip to the Met. We headed straight to the Sargent exhibit to see several of our favorites, and it was an absolutely fantastic exhibit. Then we covered a lot of ground in a short time and saw lots of our favorites before heading to Brooklyn.

Hokusai and Sargent

Friday, July 31st, 2015

Storytellers in the Courtyard

Thursday, July 23rd, 2015

For tonight’s theme of Myths and Monsters, four storytellers stood at the four corners of the courtyard and performed three stories from Greek Mythology while a cellist played! It was pretty spectacular!

Tiger Lilies at the Gardner

Thursday, July 9th, 2015

The tiger lilies looked amazing in the Gardner Museum’s Monks Garden at the first Neighborhood Nights of Summer 2015

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National Air and Space Museum

Tuesday, July 7th, 2015

National Museum of the American Indian

Tuesday, July 7th, 2015

Newseum

Monday, July 6th, 2015

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National Building Museum

Monday, July 6th, 2015

The National Building Museum is a great place to go to watch your adorable cousin stack things up and knock things over, over and over again!

National Gallery of Art

Monday, July 6th, 2015