We got a little late start today because we were exhausted from our long trek of the day before. We jumped the subway (we felt like old pros by this time) and headed uptown toward Central Park and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
We arrived at the museum and headed for the Islamic Art wing. I had found this video (stop and watch this, it is amazing!) and wanted to see it in person.
If you didn't look at the video before, after looking at those pictures, you might want to go back and click on that link now because it is truly amazing.
We went to the 19th and early 20th century European Paintings and Sculpture Galleries. We spent hours looking at paintings by Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Manet, Corot, (you get the idea) we had a snack in the cafe and then hit the Medieval and Cloisters gallery.
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| This piece is only about 5 inches tall and the detail is amzaing |
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| This piece, a rosary, was carved from ivory in the 1500s |
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| See below photo for explanation |
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| Biggify this so you can read it, it's fascinating! |
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| Count the toes..... |
Apparently 6 toed saints are more common than you would think. Some artists portrayed the saints with 6 digits as a way of saying that they had a 6th sense or special knowledge conferred upon them.
Well,we stayed here as long as we could take it and didn't get through half of the place. By this time I knew that I had to come back on another trip. We headed back toward a pizza place that Randy had found near the subway station. We ordered this....
it was a size small and was as large as any pizza I've had in NC. I wonder how large a large one would be? It was delicious. My daughter's friend from college, #Spencer Hutton, had always held forth about the superiority of NY pizza . He asked that we take a photo of what we ate.
We found a CVS nearby and got a supply of gummy worms and headed back to the hotel, exhausted and thoroughly artified and ready for the next day.
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