{"id":300,"date":"2007-08-26T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/26\/desiderio-at-national-gallery-of-art\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T16:43:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T21:43:13","slug":"desiderio-at-national-gallery-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/desiderio-at-national-gallery-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Desiderio at National Gallery of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Yesterday I went to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. to see the Desiderio da Settignano (c. 1429\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1464) exhibit<\/a>. Desiderio was a Renaissance sculptor, working in Florence. It’s a small exhibit (just 2 galleries), but the sculptures on display are wonderful. The details in the busts, especially of children, make them seem so lifelike – almost like a cast was made directly from a real person. Photography wasn’t allowed in the exhibit, but it is allowed in the rest of the (permanent) collection. I wandered about after looking at the Desiderio exhibit, and I’ve put some pictures online<\/a>. I’d been to the East Building a number of times, but this was the first time (that I can recall) that I tried the West Building. Well worth a visit – and like most of the National museums it is free.<\/p>\n

I especially liked Titian’s portrait of a gentleman (see below). I love the expression on the man’s face.<\/p>\n

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Giorgione and Titian: Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, c. 1510<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Giorgione and Titian: Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman, c. 1510<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spanish Lady<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spanish Lady<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Yesterday I went to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. to see the Desiderio da Settignano (c. 1429\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1464) exhibit. Desiderio was a Renaissance sculptor, working in Florence. It’s a small exhibit (just 2 galleries), but the sculptures on display are wonderful. The details in the busts, especially of children, make them seem so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}