Today we hit one of Monica's bucket list items, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (a.k.a. "the Met"). This museum has tons of exhibits, ranging from Monica's favourites (the Neoclassical European painters) to Maija's (Greek statues) and mine (various musical instruments and assorted woodworking and intarsia artifacts). It unfortunately did not have much in the way of trains for Terran, but he did see a Stradivari violin which was pretty neat.
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| Monica may have swooned a little at the sight of this Goya painting. She has studied Goya extensively as part of her art history degree. |
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| A detail of some of the amazing intarsia shown on a large cabinet |
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| A musician playing a lute. |
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| A woman with an early baroque style guitar. |
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| For lunch we went to Tal's Bagels, a few blocks from the Met in the Upper East Side. They have the tagline "Appetizing" (which I suppose is a better choice than "Unappetizing", but still seems to set the bar quite low). Despite this, the bagels were wonderful and very reasonably priced. |
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| It was quite interesting to see a real historical mountain dulcimer. I had made one of these for a friend a year or so ago, but had never seen the real thing until now. |
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| An ornately decorated baroque guitar |
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| The earliest surviving piano |
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| Terran and the Stradivari violin |
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| On the way past this exhibit, Maija glanced at it and said "That looks like a Georgia O'Keefe!" Looking at the caption, and sure enough it was. She had studied this artist in school last year. |
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| Central Park |
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| The last time on the NYC Subway. When writing this post, Terran wanted to tell you that "I have a model of that exact subway" |
I am so happy for you guys, look at you reveling in all the art :)
ReplyDeleteI love that you all can share in each other's passions :)
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