A Winter Sunday At the Met Museum

Sunday January 30, 2011 – Met Kokyat at the Met Museum today. For some reason, depite huge crowds in general, certain galleries were rather quiet. We saw lots of things we hadn’t seen before. Above: Sleeping Muse (bronze 1910 by Constantine Brancusi).

Head of Brother Onufrio by Girolamo Campagna c. 1615-1620

Madonna (detail from larger canvas) by Ettore Crivelli, late 15th century

Back panel for a church choir stall, Mainz 1723-1736. This piece was a gift to the Met in 1952 from the great Wagnerian tenor Lauritz Melchior.

Saint Mark, gilt wood Germany mid-18th century

Winter, or La Frileuse, bronze by Jean-Antoine Houdon 1789.

Lucretia by Philippe Bertrand c. 1700

Portrait of a Woman, marble medallion by Henri, Baron de Triquenti 1850.

I’ve put several images from today’s Met visit in a Facebook photo album here.