Becky's photoblog

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:

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA – 1856,  the MFA’s page on Nydia
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY – the Met’s page on Nydia
• Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ – Princeton’s page on Nydia
• New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL – Art Institute’s page on Nydia

Nydia at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

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

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):

Another magical evening at the Gardner Museum!

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.

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

Photos from two weekends volunteering at the Gardner Museum

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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!

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:

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.

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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.

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!

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