Our admission to the Met Cloisters was good for 3 days in all The Met Museums. An opportunity I cannot pass. After a Jollibee lunch (again!) and desserts at Red Ribbon we headed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art at 1000 5th Avenue. A marble statue at the reception area. Read more…
Like in any other museum, there is so much to see, read and enjoy at the Cloisters – a visit of a few hours is not enough. Still we managed to snap a few photos of some items of interest. Late 15th century Spanish covered chalice with silver, gilded with Read more…
The Hunt of the Unicorn or the Unicorn Tapestries is a series of seven tapestries (a piece of thick textile fabric with pictures or designs formed by weaving colored weft threads or embroidering on canvas, used as a wall hanging or furniture covering) dating from between 1495 and 1505 and is one of the most Read more…
As I can never get enough of the art collections I saw at the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, here are a few more with background stories too. Edgar Degas – Rehearsal Before The Ballet A Sybil Preaching – Giovanni Paolo Paninni The Healing of Antiochus – Giovanni Battista Pitionni, Italian. Bacchus and Read more…
One of the five museums we got access to at the Springfield Museums with our single admission fee is the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. This art museum holds a large collection of American 19th century paintings, Italian 19th century watercolors, a rare plaster cast collection, Japanese arms and armor Read more…