Saturday, May 10, 2025

Yale University Art Gallery

 What a place!  Beautiful pieces from every period, every country and every medium.

A room full of classical Roman and Greek busts.  Marcus Aurelius is in the center, from ~147 A.D.

In another room, Gustav Courbet's 1875 bronze bust, La Liberte, is the focal point.

This lustrous marble Sienese bust is by Giuseppe Mazzuoli and is from ~1690 - 1700.  It portrays a member of the Chigi Family, possibly Francesco Chigi Piccolomini (1650-1720)

I love these glazed earthenware animals -- a horse and two camels -- from China.  They are from the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.  Years ago I had two small horses like this, which I am sure were reproductions.

This is a beautiful room loaded with American paintings.

1 comment:

Taken For Granted said...

This gallery has an outstanding collection. Thank you for showing some of it.