December travel - Part 5

The National Gallery is overwhelming, both in its size and in its collections...and we had a limited time - so we passed a lot of stuff we would have loved to linger over...these are just the highlights...


Isoult - Edward McCartan 1926

Waterfall Fountain outside of the downstairs cafe

Naiad - Antonio Canova 1823

Cherubs Playing with a Lyre - Pierre Legros  1672-1673

Mercury - Anonymous (after Giovanni Bologna) 1780-1850

Cherubs Playing with a Swan - Jean-Baptiste Tuby 1672-1673
(when I saw this I thought, "OMG, poor bird...where are those children's mother???"

Dave with his favorite painting - e.g., the reason we went to the Gallery in the first place - Señora Sabasa Garcia - Francisco de Goya 1806-1811

The Emperor Napoleon in his Study at Tuileries
Jacques-Louis David   1812

Ceres (Summer) - Antoine Watteau  1717-1718

Cupid - Edme Bouchardon 1744

St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz)
Francisco Antonio Gijon 1675

 

Front and Back of
Ginevra de' Benci [obverse]  Leonardo da Vinci c. 1474/1478

Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol - also de Goya  1803-1804

After the Gallery, we headed up (down?) the mall, past the Washington Monument...


headed toward....                                            and looking from the memorial

We could see the White House from the Monument (the crane is working on a building several blocks behind the WH)...

And, finally, the World War II Memorial...

the memorial is the Stonehenge-looking object in the lower right...

inside the memorial

to honor his Dad, Dave took a picture of his cap which depicts the ship his father served on (USS Mallard) with the State where his father was born & lived at the time

As you can tell, the sun was setting, so we caught a cab back to the hotel and left the next morning after breakfast...

A quick 2 days, but what a great trip!

Here's to looking forward to a great 2015!

December travel - part 4

Friday we got up early and headed back to D.C.

Checked into the hotel, and then went to the airport and returned the rental car - headed for the metro station and took the subway into Washington...

We got off at the station that lets you out at the National Archive...

that large crowd is part of the cheering section for the Army-Navy game...

We then proceeded to the National Gallery - saw a few interesting things along the way...

General Hancock

Memorial to the Army of the Republic



Temperance Fountain

on the mall side of the National Archives

no fear...

Next up - the National Gallery, the Washington Monument and the WWII Memorial...

December travels - part 3

After Fredricksburg, we hit the road again and headed for Buzz & Ned's in Richmond - the absolute best BBQ on the East Coast...

...no, really...we can not recommend this place high enough!

After lunch, we headed for Hampton and Fort Monroe...

 

Fort Monroe - long history of fortifications, large stone star fort - important people stationed and imprisoned there...

(aerial photo from Internet)

 

The Casemate Museum suffers from trying to cover too many decades in too small a space...

 

 

We then hit the road again and headed for Virginia Beach so Dave could give his lecture...

and we made it...with minutes to spare!

next up - an extremely brief visit to Washington...