Hope and Healing

This morning we went to an exhibit at the Worcester Art Museum - Hope and Healing - Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague http://www.worcesterart.org/Hope/

In addition to those paintings we saw a painting of St. Bartholomew by Rembrandt, Monet's Waterloo Bridge, a few paintings by Matisse, and a painting of Veronica Franco, a Venetian courtesan from the 16th century. Alex is writing an entry about her for the encyclopedia of the Inquisition. A professor from Pisa is working with several other professors from Pisa to put the encyclopedia together and he asked Alex to write the entry.













The other two pictures posted are two that I liked: Mary Magdalene with six saints and the other is entitled Allegory of Folly.

After we finished there we went to Higgins Armory Museum http://www.higgins.org/ which sounded good in theory. It was not exactly worth the eight bucks we paid to get in...the word Cheesetastic kept coming to mind. The highlight, for me, was the chastity belt. I learned, thanks to Alex, what the two hearts in the belt were for. Which yes now that I think about it, makes sense..