Day 417 - Painting on various supports
May 11, 2025 Going to the museum only a few hours before my car service was scheduled to take me to JFK for my flight seemed crazy enough, even when I decided to save a few minutes by cabbing over to the East Side. When I discovered that 81st Street was blocked off between Columbus and Central Park West, necessitating a long (and costly) detour, I thought briefly about just going back home. But I wanted to get to one more gallery before a three-week hiatus set in, and I was able to do that, although my visit to that gallery was very abbreviated The theme of Gallery 640 is painting on different “supports” - that is, media other than canvas, including copper, wood, plaster as is fresco painting), and stone. On display are works from different countries that span the period from about 1330 to 1860. One I particularly like is an oil on copper painting, measuring about 24 inches high and 16 inches high, by Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), a Bologna-born painter (yet ...