A Mummy at The Met and more
I mentioned in my earlier blog that the other thing apart from French Painter Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates painting, I gushed over the Egyptian relics. Having seen a real mummy with intricate bandage, met a Sphinx and scrutinized a Mentuhotep statue in person gave me an inexplicable joy. I read somewhere that The Met or the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one Museum that you have to go to if you have to choose one, and now, I agree. The African Origin of Civilization with Egyptian Art in Gallery 136 Floor 1. But see more in Galleries 304, 376, 455, 550, 601, 681, 753, 828, 957, 964, Ground Floor, Floors 1 & 2. The mummy that gave real face to the mummies we just saw in movies. The fabric used is sturdy and the latticework in wrapping the body is intricate, not like it's just wrapped by a roll paper. Dutch masters were a real find too and I was lucky to have seen a Rembrandt and a ...