Monday, August 24, 2015

P-Day

We did our normal apartment cleaning tasks today.  Then I suggested that we go to the Ringling Museum of Art.  When John Ringling bequeathed his personal art collection and building to the state in 1936, he specified that admission be free one day a week.  He wanted everyone to be able to benefit from seeing the art.  Fortunately for us, the free day is Monday.

They have a good collection of art and antiquities from the 1600s through the 1800s from a variety of artists including Rubens and Van Dyke.  They also have a reproduction of the David sculpture by Michelangelo.  It is outdoors in a gardens and is a bronze statue.  We like the original marble sculpture better :-)

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