Today = 511 miles. Left home at 9, picked up a National Geographic book in Dover, got to the Smith College Museum of Art around noon.
The Smith College Museum of Art has a wonderful exhibit:
It was a beautiful display of etchings/engravings of Rome done by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). Although there is a "No Photography" policy, the pieces are almost all from the Yale University Art Gallery, and they have their collection online. Exceptional pieces include:
View of the Arch of Titus [with the Villa Farnese to the left], 1771
Basilica of Constantine and Maxentius, 1748–80
View of the Large Trevi Fountain formerly called the Acqua Vergine, 1751
The Nolli Map of Rome, 1748
which is incorporated into an interactive web-page on the Smith College Museum of Art website:
Pretty Cool!!
Elsewhere in the Museum (in addition to works by Church, Cole, Durand, Heade, Homer and Rodin):
Hubert Robert - Pyramids, c. 1760
William Stanley Haseltine - Natural Arch, Capri, c. 1855-76
Albert Bierstadt - Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, New Hampshire, 1861
Francis Seth Frost - South Pass, Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, 1860
Claude Monet - Field of Poppies, 1890
Good Adventure-Time with my Beautiful Bride. Thank You God for these Great Days! (and for a great dinner at TGI Fridays in Williamsville, NY)
Music today - started with a couple of recordings from Counting Crows:
Counting Crows - Hard Candy, 2002
Counting Crows - 2016/08/03 Bangor, ME, 2016 (I SAW THIS SHOW THIS PAST SUMMER!!)
Walter Becker - 11 Tracks of Whack, 1994
The Steve Miller Band - Your Saving Grace, 1969
Avicii - True, 2013
Neil Young - Harvest Moon, 1992
Shameless Plug: if you enjoy this blog, you may like my other one about Hiking the 4,000 footers in New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine (On Sept. 1, I joined Deede and Tad hiking Mt. Katahdin [Hunt Trail] - his final day on the AT!)
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