Art!
We went to the Blanton Art Museum in Austin while we there last weekend visiting Mom 95.5.
There was an exhibit starting soon called Spirit & Splendor: El Greco, Velázquez, and the Hispanic Baroque. It was already available to Blanton members, so we just strolled into the exhibit like we belonged and suddenly, we did.
The exhibit made me wonder when artists stopped painting royalty and religious scenes and started depicting ordinary people. I need to do some research on that.
Here are a few of the pieces; in particular, the two I found most interesting. It's impossible for a camera to capture the beauty of Wedding at Cana because the mother-of-pearl inlays don't have the luster they do in real life. It was shockingly beautiful.
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