We started out our day with a nice 18 minute walk to the Museo Ottocento. This museum has a very specific niche, Bolognaise artists from the late 1800's. These artists seem to have been overlooked due to the huge bruhaha that surrounded the emergence of the Impressionists at the turn of the century. That is unfortunate as these painters had mastered the art of photorealism just as photography was being invented. Some of the works could be interpreted as impressionist-ish but there were only a few brush strokes to be seen in the entire collection. The woman who sold us the tickets asked us if we wanted a guided tour. Yes please, guide us through the collection, was our response. She was interning at the museum while studying history at BUB. Later we asked her if she enjoyed her internship. She said that she always seems to learn something from the folks getting the tour. We are not sure we gave her any new knowledge but we certainly came away with a ton of new information.
We passed this restaurant. it is Temakinho and it reminds us of Amazono restaurant in Spain
Another large church complex
Great doorway
We have made it to the museum
Some zany art on the ceilings
More striking art as we buy our tickets
I can think of only one situation where my toes respond like this
This is a tongue in cheek portrait of the local Bishop painted by a former priest
One of the things that our guide learned from other patrons was that this hand made clock was powered by the weights and the off axis pendulum
The knight has thrown his glove to the ground and challenged the cat to a duel
Naked woodwinds
Everything starts somewhere
The end product is much better
Some were tiny
Most were super realistic like this picture of Pompei
Others were bright like this picture of kids swimming in the leather makers canal
This was a painting of a rare female artist painted by her painter husband
An iconic Bologna setting
Father and son paintings. The one on the bottom s by the son after the father passed away. There is a ghostly fisherman in the painting thought to be the father.
On each identifying placard is the artists signature. We have not seen this before and it is a great touch
The towers of bologna with Dante in the corner. Dante actually studied in Bologna.
Mooo-ving on over
The oriental style
When there was a fascination with things from the Mideast
Some Venice pictures
Ladies all fancy but fishing...women did not fish back int those days, it was not allowed
The 7 deadly sins.
Scary moon
Spooky characters from the bottom right
1886 with the artists signature
This tower was considered the lighthouse of Venice
A lute playing cat is on the outside and singing to a cat on the inside
Too sexy for just anyone to inspect. A velvet rope is there to keep the riff raff at bay
A metal piece
This artis was such a horndog that the model he hired refused to pose when she saw it was him. So he put on the dress he had brought for the model to wear, and became the subject
The closest painting to an impressionist work
Ballerina with a broken tutu
Critics, not painted in a flattering light
All the famous Italian painters on one canvas
This was a sad story. The painters wife took the kids with her to America and left him behind. The kids are painted semi-transparent as if they were ghosts. Descendants of the woman who moved to America visited this museum and were able to point to one of the people as their great grandmother
The gates to the palazzo next door
It has been 2 years and 343 days since we began our Migration
