For my adventure in culture project I decided to go to St Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts. I had never been to this museum before and honestly I was not really sure what to expect. My first impression of the building walking up to it is that it looked marvelous and looked like what any classic museum would look like. It has great pillars and is modern yet it exudes a more elder and traditional style. It made me feel enthusiastic and welcome to come in and see what enthralling and compelling artifacts and pieces may be held inside of it. I expected to see many marvelous grand paintings and sculptures and pieces from all over the world and that each one would tell its own narrative. When I had first gotten into the exhibits all I saw was what
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One way they would organize them was by the date they were contrived but also by the origins of the artist or artists and their ethnicity. The rooms for each gallery were also sponsored by certain institutions or people such as The Bank of America Gallery, or the Lee Malone Gallery to name a couple. The way they set up the exhibition rooms was they would set paintings all around the walls from certain artists and have a few significant and preponderant pieces throughout the center. The room that stood out to most was the Junior League Great Hall. This room had two grand mirrors surrounded by enormous intricate paintings from french artists. Upon first walking in the room you could just feel the vibrancy and utter amplitude of …show more content…
The Master of the Greenville Tondo is an anonymous artist who is said to have created some other works such as Tondo (which is a circular painting) in the collection of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. I could not find a specific date for when this painting was created but it is best dated around the late 15th century and early 16th century. The best description and way of telling the story is through how the museum explains it in the exhibit. It is that Baroque religious art was made to inspire and educate the viewer. Which is one way on how I think it best relates to the courses content in showing that it is made to inspire ourselves and almost help us discover who we are as the people of the Baroque era were doing when this painting was made. They were looking for way to improve one’s self. This painting also focuses on four scenes. Mary and Joseph, youthful angles at their side, kneel in adoration of the Christ Child, who lies on the ground with his head resting in a bundle of wheat, which is symbolic of Bethlehem and the sacrament of communion. In the upper left corner an angel announces the birth of Jesus to the shepherds. In the center background are three Magi with their entourage, while to the right Mary, holding Jesus in her arms, rides a donkey on the Holy Family’s
One way they would organize them was by the date they were contrived but also by the origins of the artist or artists and their ethnicity. The rooms for each gallery were also sponsored by certain institutions or people such as The Bank of America Gallery, or the Lee Malone Gallery to name a couple. The way they set up the exhibition rooms was they would set paintings all around the walls from certain artists and have a few significant and preponderant pieces throughout the center. The room that stood out to most was the Junior League Great Hall. This room had two grand mirrors surrounded by enormous intricate paintings from french artists. Upon first walking in the room you could just feel the vibrancy and utter amplitude of …show more content…
The Master of the Greenville Tondo is an anonymous artist who is said to have created some other works such as Tondo (which is a circular painting) in the collection of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. I could not find a specific date for when this painting was created but it is best dated around the late 15th century and early 16th century. The best description and way of telling the story is through how the museum explains it in the exhibit. It is that Baroque religious art was made to inspire and educate the viewer. Which is one way on how I think it best relates to the courses content in showing that it is made to inspire ourselves and almost help us discover who we are as the people of the Baroque era were doing when this painting was made. They were looking for way to improve one’s self. This painting also focuses on four scenes. Mary and Joseph, youthful angles at their side, kneel in adoration of the Christ Child, who lies on the ground with his head resting in a bundle of wheat, which is symbolic of Bethlehem and the sacrament of communion. In the upper left corner an angel announces the birth of Jesus to the shepherds. In the center background are three Magi with their entourage, while to the right Mary, holding Jesus in her arms, rides a donkey on the Holy Family’s