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[fotoi]

Vincent (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

 

[greatgrandma]

The Louvre

Grande Odalisque by Ingres

Ingres added five extra vertebrae to her spine (on purpose I guess).

I took this photo on the way to another section of the museum. We were going to the Italian section.

The Pastoral Concert (ca. 1510) by Giorgione or Titian inspiration for Manet 1862 painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe which caused such a sensation

After about an hour, my back started to hurt, and I tried to hurry her along. But she insisted that I see the Mona Lisa, and there was a special path for wheelchairs that put us around in the front of the multitudes standing 12 deep in front of the painting.

Mona Lisa

My guide Hildegarde insisted on showing me

Sleeping Hermaphroditus

It is apparently one of the 13 things that you must see in the Louvre. If you count the pyramid, I have seen 8 of them. I missed #1 The Winged Victory of Samothrace, but I saw
3. Venus de Milo
4. The Raft of the Medusa
5. Liberty Leading the People
6. The Coronation of Napoleon
7. Sleeping Hermaphroditus
9. I.M. Pei’s Pyramid
12. Grande Odalisque by Ingres
13. The Mona Lisa
Now it was almost 1300 and was time to leave. How to find the way out? She did as before and someone led us to the elevator to get down to the exit, but Hildegard said that it did not work. We could see where we needed to go - there was a flight of steps down. So I suggested she go down and ask at the bottom. I was sitting on the scooter at the top of the steps and a nice young couple said, Did I need help? I said that I thought I could go down the steps if he could carry the scooter down. So that's what he did and I went down the steps. Crisis averted.

 

[greatgrandma]

The Curaçao Maritime Museum documents 500 years maritime history of Curaçao. There is a permanent exhibition consisting of displays with authentic nautical charts, ship models and navigation equipment combined with audiovisual techniques

Ship in the Naval Museum

Model Ship in the Maritime Museum

Model ship

There was a spiral staircase with a mural behind it of various aspects of maritime history.

Spiral stairs in the museum

As well as the exhibition, the museum also offers a number of interesting tours. We had a night time tour after the museum was closed

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Ingres added five extra vertebrae to her spine (on purpose I guess).

That certainly explains her unusually long body!

 

[fotoi]

Vincent in Rodin Museum, Paris.

 

[greatgrandma]

In 2009 I went to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It was an extremely unprepossessing modern building.

Entrance to museum

Pictures outside of Museum


No pictures were allowed inside, but they charged B as a child so her ticket was free and I just paid for mine.

Prices when we were there


We got a free wheelchair and went up to the first floor where she would park me opposite a sign to read and then zoom around on her own. She was fascinated by the nude child painting and we stayed a long time at the exhibit that explained how Van Gogh overpainted a lot of his canvases. We went up to the next floor and she sat for awhile at the computer terminal and read some of the letters etc. That website is available outside of the museum, so she can do farther research if she wants. We went down and looked at the shop and bought some post cards, and then turned in the wheelchair and left the museum.

 

[JohnPD]

Prices when we were there

That must have been some time ago, those prices have almost tripled!

 

[greatgrandma]

That must have been some time ago, those prices have almost tripled!

Yes it was 2009. My granddaughter was 12 then. Since then she has been married, divorced, and had a child.

 

[JohnPD]

Yes it was 2009. My granddaughter was 12 then. Since then she has been married, divorced, and had a child.

A lot can happen in 16 years, especially when one is young.