Balboa Park

Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre historic urban cultural park in San Diego, California. Placed in reserve in 1835, the park's site is one of the oldest in the United States dedicated to public recreational use. The park hosts various museums, theaters, restaurants, and the San Diego Zoo. It is managed and maintained by the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of San Diego.

Balboa Park hosted the 1915–16 Panama–California Exposition and 1935–36 California Pacific International Exposition, both of which left architectural landmarks. The park and its historic exposition buildings were declared a National Historic Landmark and National Historic Landmark District in 1977, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The San Diego Museum of Art houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. It opened as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed to its current name in 1978. The official Balboa Park website calls it "the region's oldest and largest art museum".
The museum building was designed by architects William Templeton Johnson and Robert W. Snyder in a plateresque style to harmonize with existing structures from the Panama–California Exposition of 1915.The dominant feature of the façade is a heavily ornamented door inspired by a doorway at the University of Salamanca.
Of course we started with The Art of Devotion Gallery. Some works I highlighted here are
Luini's The Conversion of Magdalena
Catena's Holy Family w St. Anne (alway makes me mad that they paint Joseph as if he was Methuselah... but then if Mary here is say 14-15 then....)
Criveli's Madonna & Child (both Laurie & I were not sure if we liked the kid's facial expression...bit "angry' for our taste)
There is Master of Saint Nicholas' St John The Evangelist and The Poisoned Cup where I also detailed the little dragon of the cup

The next gallery was Art of the Portrait focusing mainly on females (although there is this one weird "portrait")
I included Bastida's The Three Errazuriz Sisters
Diego Rivera's Portrait of Adalgisa Neri (his other work is here as well)
Frank Auerbach's Head of (JYM?... I think ...)Leia mais