I had planned to scan a couple of new photos for today’s post, but as I’ve had a very busy week, I never got around to doing the scanning. Instead, I’m posting a photo I made with the camera in my iPod while on a brief visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few days ago.
The name I chose for my website and this blog is “Figures of Grace.” That’s meant to represent the graceful quality that I like to include in my photos. Of course, that graceful quality existed in art long before the camera was invented.
I guess the prime example of gracefulness in art is, not surprisingly, the ancient depiction of the muses known as the Three Graces. The name I chose for my websites is an hommage of sorts to their beauty. So, when I was at the Met, I just had to make a quick visit to see this beautiful work of art, which is a Roman copy of a Greek original.
Of course, I had to make a photo, too.
Another favorite depiction of the Three Graces is the lovely, small painting by Raphael, which I was fortunate to see several years ago in the Musee Conde in Chantilly, France, outside of Paris. The entire reason for the trip was to see this painting, and it was worth it. Click here to see it.
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