Thursday, August 14, 2014
"Rotunda at MFA"
8:10am


Standing in the center, looking up at the ceiling...


One of the beautiful murals, designed by John Singer Sargent in 1921...


View from second floor, into an alcove...


Close up of The Sphinx and Chimaera
One of Sargent's sketches for this mural...


View of Julia through the pillars, the banner says

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ROBERT DAWSON EVANS
1843  -  1909
MERCHANT FINANCIER AND PATRON OF ART
A TRUSTEE OF THIS MUSEUM
BUILT BY HIS WIFE MARIA ANTOINETTE EVANS
"The second phase of construction, funded entirely by Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans, built a wing along the Back Bay Fens to house painting galleries. It opened in 1915. From 1916 through 1925, John Singer Sargent created the art that lines the rotunda and the associated colonnade." (Source: Wikipedia

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