{"id":10132,"date":"2010-06-21T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T03:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/21\/museum-of-fine-arts-boston\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:46:33","slug":"museum-of-fine-arts-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/21\/museum-of-fine-arts-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Fine Arts, Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I\u2019m not really an art person though there was that phase in my life when I did a lot of comic strip doodling. But when you\u2019re at a museum as well-done, designed and as immaculately managed as The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, it\u2019s very hard not to be impressed.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum was one of the five sites included in the Citypass, so I swung by to take a peak. This museum is the largest art museum in New England, and one of the five largest in the country. The Museum is situated along Huntington Avenue, and just a little pass Northeastern University.<\/p>\n<p>The Huntington Avenue entrance is also graced by a statue done by American sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin in 1909 entitled \u201cAppeal to the Great Spirit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0054-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0054MuseumFineArts.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0054-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rotunda\u2019s ceiling features one of the most amazing murals I\u2019ve yet seen. It\u2019s by John Singer Sargent, a 19th century American painter very well known for his oil paintings and water colors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0073-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0073MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0073-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Museum store. Picked up a couple of things here.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0086-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0086MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0086-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not quite sure what the below exhibit was, but it was in a special room with antique silver ware.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0101-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0101MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0101-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spent the most time though exploring the exhibition halls housing the 17th to 19th century masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0112-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0112MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0112-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a very small selection of pictures are included in my post here. The below is <em>Martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus<\/em> by an unindentifed Neatherlandish artist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0118-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0118MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0118-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below: <em>Virgin and Child<\/em> by Bartolomeo Saurdi, 15th century.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0122-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0122MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0122-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below: One of the Museum\u2019s most famous pieces on display: <em>Madame Monet in a Japanese Costume<\/em> by Claude Monet, 19th century.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0133-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0133MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0133-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below two pictures: a huge hall with dozens of 18th century masterpieces on all four sides of the hall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0156-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0156MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0156-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0164-MuseumFineArts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0164MuseumFineArts.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0164-MuseumFineArts\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More pictures in the Flickr album.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I\u2019m not really an art person though there was that phase in my life when I did a lot of comic strip doodling. 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