an amazing building, on the inside, full of wonderful paintings. i don' t know if it's b/c i'm a bit jaded from all museum visits in italy, but at first as i was wondering around i thought okay yaya, i don't really care about the daughter of the duke of someone's portrait on the wall, but as i wondered around and turned the corner, lo and behold was one of the sunflowers paintings by van gogh!! and next to it was the yellow chair. and behind me was monet and manet paintings, and in the next room was degas paintings w/ a picasso and my favourite, was gustav klimt's portrait of hermine gallia.
some thoughts i jotted down when i sat inside the gallery
"hi... i'm sitting in a room full of van gogh monet, manet, cezzanne, rousseau paintings... provibe. i am humble by the creative genius in this room. reminds me of the vibe in musee d'orsy when alexxi and i were sitting in a room w/ the van gogh self-portrait. in front of me is cezanne's "bathers" and just behind me is van gogh's sunflowers and solitaire chair... in absolute brilliant company. it's cool, neat for lack of a better word to see the brush strokes up close. wish my mum was here w/ me to see this. she'd go crazy ape shit...fangirl."
and as i wondered thru into the gallery's shop, i realized there were da vinci's in this building (from the souvenir loot) so i ventured back in and quickly found da vinci's the virgin & child saint anne & saint john baptist. 1499-1500.
this was a "cartoon" full size in prep for a painting, but was never actually painted. da vinci used his sfumato technique and it was clearly evident to me as i stood in front of this cartoon (more like masterpiece of epic proportions), b/c the faces of the saints felt like they were popping out at me. as if it was 3d. i almost wanted to touch the cheeks of anne and john baptist. this was absolute GENIUS work and i am so grateful i saw it in real life. absolute genius vibe.
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