This week for my Where Oh Where Wednesday, we're going to play a game! I've posted a series of images, each one bringing you closer to the answer to this week's question: Which museum? If you are able to guess it with this first image, bravo, you probably are one of my nine friends who accompanied me to this museum today! For this week's love theme, I had to post this beautifully created heart from...
the café inside the museum. My friend had this cappuccino, and I had a delicious peach mango hot tea.
Second image, a view of the skyline of this city in the Netherlands. Have you guessed yet? The images will get easier soon. I've created the game so that you need at least four images--more fun!
Love is in the air, so one of my favorites was this wonderful painting by Abraham Bloemaert from Utrecht entitled Theagenes Receiving the Palm of Honor from Chariclea. In the painting, commissioned by Frederik Hendrik and his wife Amalia, Theagenes won the race in Delphi, Greece, and upon kissing Chariclea's hand, fell madly in love, as did Chariclea. At the museum, I enjoyed listening to the audio tour from an app I downloaded for free from the App Store on my iPhone. I love viewing art from far away first, then walking closer and closer to see the intricate details. I am always in awe at the talent of these masters of art.
Fourth image, On the Ice by Hendrick Avercamp shows the Dutch doing what they love--skating on canals. So far this year, no skating. A friend informed us it hasn't been cold enough for the past 5 years!
Fifth image, The Goldfinch, by Carel Fabritius. Have you ventured a guess yet as to which museum I visited? In the novel, The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, who won the Pulitzer for the bestseller, this painting was on loan and hanging in the Metropolitan Museum in New York before being stolen. Since I read the novel last year with a book club I belonged to, this was one of two paintings I specifically sought out at the museum today. While I did not love the novel, I do like the painting, though it wasn't one of my favorites. My favorite birds are actually hummingbirds, but more about them in a future post!
Sixth and final images, probably the most famous painting in the museum, as you can gather from the two gentlemen taking photos. I took this pic first, with people, to give you a sense of the size of the painting. When I see an image of just a painting on the internet, I have a hard time visualizing how large or small the artwork actually is. (One of my biggest disappointments, the Mona Lisa. Though I had seen the dimensions, I hadn't processed them, and when we went into the room in the Louvre, where the Mona Lisa was displayed, my husband and I both said, at almost the same time, "It's that small?!"
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer is the second painting that I really wanted to see today, and I was not disappointed. I loved it!
Hope you enjoyed playing the game! Head on over to Instagram to check your answer to the question: Which museum!
Hope you enjoyed playing the game! Head on over to Instagram to check your answer to the question: Which museum!