A few weeks back TYG and I made one of our visits to the North Carolina Museum of Art to catch their Venetian and Samurai exhibits. They also had an interesting display of portraiture, grouping classic art with more recent images.
There was samurai armor —
And a sword. Writing on the tang was normal — the hilt would be replaced several times over the decades as the sword was inherited by new generations.
In the Venetian exhibit we saw a Titian
And what high heels looked like in Venetian times.
I’ll wrap up with Archipenko’s sculpture, Blue Dancer. It’s neat.
