Ackland Art Museum
Written by on January 22nd, 2009Ackland Art Museum. Not very large. Worth seeing. Some beautiful works of art. We really enjoyed it.
The man who left the money and the vision for the museum, William Hayes Ackland, is actually interred right inside the museum, in a sarcophagus below a bronze statue of his likeness.
My two favorite paintings there? (These will be large, but you can scroll back and forth and up and down and see the paintings.)
St. John beginning his account of the gospel.
And Cleopatra with the peasant who brought to her the asp.
Breathtaking.
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Super post. This is something we are going to have to go see since we are so close. Our kids both read a book named Juan de Pareja about a slave who was taught to paint by Diego Velazquez. The both loved the book and when we investigated a little, we found that Velazquez was a very big influence on Norman Rockwell. We could actually see the similarities in style in their paintings. It really invigorated our interest in the old masters.
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Thanks for the book suggestion, Ken. I’ll write it down with all the other “art” things I wrote down yesterday that I want us to do.
It sounds great. I think you would like the museum. Seems they have a lot of work that rotates, so you see different things over time. Then, of course, there are the exhibits which are not permanent. I definitely want to take Joseph when they have the Asian exhibit.
Lynn