At the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Orchids
Category Archives: museums
Pompeii
Yesterday we visited “Pompeii: The Exhibition” at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Homeric
The above is my image of the fragment of Homer’s Iliad (Book 5, lines 824-841), papyrus manuscript, c. 150 – 199 CE, currently on display at the University of Chicago. From “But Is It a Book?”:
This papyrus fragment bears 17 lines from Book 5 of Homer’s Iliad. Although epic poems from antiquity are typically divided up into books, the word would not have been understood in the way it is used today. The term comes from the papyrus “bookroll,” which was formed by affixing approximately 20 standard sheets of papyrus together that could be rolled up into a compact unit and hold roughly 700 lines of poetry – close to the typical book divisions of ancient epics.
Surreal
Yesterday we visited the Art Institute of Chicago for “Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears.” The above images are my photographs of detail from
— Inventions of the Monsters (1937);
— Formation of the Monsters (1937);
— Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938);
— City of Drawers (1936);
— Untitled (Dream of Venus), formerly Visions of Eternity (1939);
— and two of Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936).
At the Art Institute
My images of detail from
__ “The Bewitched Mill” by Franz Marc (1913)
__ “Alphabet” by Jasper Johns (1959)
__ “Woman” by Joan Miró (1934)
__ “Greyed Rainbow” by Jackson Pollock (1953)”
Ancient Roman
At the the Art Institute.
At the Smart Museum of Art
Tony Tasset’s Pieta (2007)
Roman sculpture
Field Museum
Have I ever mentioned that fossils fascinate me?
Portraits
My images of some of the people I met at the Detroit Institute of Arts last weekend.
From top left to bottom right:
A Philosopher (about 1635) by José de Ribera
Two Jesters (1550-75) by Unknown artist
Self Portrait (1828) by Rembrandt Peale
Head of a Man (1777-78) John Singleton Copley
Girl Reading (1938) by Pablo Picasso
Self Portrait (1887) by Vincent Van Gogh
Nerdishly 