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[inphoto]

Egyptian museum

 

[JohnPD]

Egyptian museum

Nice!
Do you have any info on these statues maybe, inphoto? I take it the chap in the second pic is some pharaoh?

 

[inphoto]

The first one is a very small bowl for storing human innards - intestines
The second one is a small statue of a simple father, well, maybe a higher officer, with his two daughters that look like him.

 

[JohnPD]

The first one is a very small bowl for storing human innards - intestines
The second one is a small statue of a simple father, well, maybe a higher officer, with his two daughters that look like him.

I wondered if the two females could be his daughters. Thanks!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

In 2017 in did another tour of "Where's Nifty?", the very special project on POTN. The Rijksmuseum had just reopened after more than a decade of remodelling and I took my 5D classic and the nifty fifty with me and took a lot of shots. This seems the perfect place to post them.

The first things I saw upon entering the museum: the human clock, a piece by Maarten Baas, known as "Grandfather's clock".

I stood and watch him as he updated the time and took shots of it. I put them together in this collage.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Here's a wider view of the clock.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Stained glass.

From the description:

Small stained glass panels were used as colourful, narrative accents in large windows, decorating houses and public buildings. Pigments were fused onto the glass by firing. Compositions were often designed by prominent artists. Some windows were signed, such as those by the painter Dirck Vellert, who was active in Amsterdam and Antwerp. His compositions depict mostly allegories or stories from antiquity.

The Flight into Egypt from the workshop of Dirck Vellert (c. 1480-1547), after a print by Albrecht Dürer.

 

[Ltdave]

in Alaska (i think).

these acrylic or glass strips are representative of salmon filets that Inuits hang on lines to dry as a way of preservation for eating later in the year when the fish are not as prevalent to catch

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Continuing with my tour of the Rijksmuseum (perfect thread for it I think, I'll do this is small doses!).

Just a glance at one of the rooms. The museum had been remodelled and it was (and is) really beautiful.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

The room from the other side. This is Saint Ursula and her Handmaidens (Low Countries, c. 1525)

A closer look: