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 (another ...