splendid palace

a couple of weeks ago, while visiting friends in detroit, we had the pleasure of visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts, a place that i have not visited in close to 20 years. i've always been an easy sell when it comes to art galleries. to have the ability to experience the creativity and imagination of people who have been dead for longer than i've been alive always fills me the best sense of anticipation.

walking in, the first thing i saw was this quote on the wall:

how enchanting to walk about...among those splendid palaces, those churches, those marble & bronze [statues]...

~Guiseppe Baretti, 1766

...and it only got better from there.

my favorite artist, Vincent van Gogh's Bank of the Oise at Auvers.
i always feel a bit more human simply being in his presence...

George Seurat's Le Crotoy Upstream.
pointillism never ceases to amaze me...

art on ceilings is always impressive...

life imitating art.

the DIA's front entrance.

wrought iron & unusual, ornate windows...
two of my favorite things.

this so reminded me of something you'd see in the Louvre...

...and this reminded me of the fountain Tom Hanks built in The Terminal.

i probably took 20 shots of this beautiful sculpture.
it was so perfectly suspended in the light...

i really do love ornate windows...