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Adventures in the Nelson-Atkins
Jul. 19th, 2009 10:50 amVery few people seem to know that yes, you can take a camera into a museum: just shoot without a flash (and yes, this can be done). The flash can cause major damage to the pigments, or to the substrate itself. I used to have the ultimate scientific reason for it, but I can't remember it now.
This photo is of Atalanta and Meleager, and it was commissioned by Cosimo di Medici (yes, of -those- Medicis).
My first aim for going to the Nelson was to find some examples of iconography involving encaustic (or for that matter, -something- involving encaustic), but as I discovered in my preliminary research, there are only about three dozen surviving encaustic icons from the sixth century, and most of them are at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.
Still, I got to do some good photography done (though not as much as I would have liked. My camera is now officially dead dead dead. Like, if it were environmentally friendly, I'd have buried it by now), including this photo.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
summersdream, are the ideas flowing for you like they are for me? This almost screams wedding invite! :D
But anyway. I spent more time in the early period portions, but I did head over to the new Bloch building too, which is pretty cool. I still like my early art. And the cloister which was pretty much airlifted into the Nelson. That still remains my favourite part of the Nelson. Hands down. (My teachers in elementary school used to have to drag me out of there because I loved that part too much.) I got some other fantastic photos, but this stands to be one of my favourites.
This photo is of Atalanta and Meleager, and it was commissioned by Cosimo di Medici (yes, of -those- Medicis).
My first aim for going to the Nelson was to find some examples of iconography involving encaustic (or for that matter, -something- involving encaustic), but as I discovered in my preliminary research, there are only about three dozen surviving encaustic icons from the sixth century, and most of them are at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.
Still, I got to do some good photography done (though not as much as I would have liked. My camera is now officially dead dead dead. Like, if it were environmentally friendly, I'd have buried it by now), including this photo.
summersdream, are the ideas flowing for you like they are for me? This almost screams wedding invite! :DBut anyway. I spent more time in the early period portions, but I did head over to the new Bloch building too, which is pretty cool. I still like my early art. And the cloister which was pretty much airlifted into the Nelson. That still remains my favourite part of the Nelson. Hands down. (My teachers in elementary school used to have to drag me out of there because I loved that part too much.) I got some other fantastic photos, but this stands to be one of my favourites.
