All The Beauty In The World

All The Beauty In The World by Patrick Bingley is the next book club book, and it's good it's short because I got it 13 days before we meet, and I had a day where I finished up another book for another book club.

I once did the NY Times challenge of looking at a painting for 10 minutes, so I look at the Greco painting for quite a while, while I notice a lot of things about it (See links below). The paintings kind of come alive when you take some time with them, and not just move on when they get boring. I'm often too interested in consuming everything, instead of really grokking one painting when I'm present at a museum. Moving forward I'm going to be more strategic.

Links to first 4 references:

View of Toledo by El Greco at Met.

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Raphael. Detail below

Madonna and Child by Duccio

Little Dancer of Fourteen Years Degas

Links:

The book pdf

A favorites of Bringley's with little essay. The Harvest is his fav.

Bringley worked at the New Yorker before becoming a guard at the Met (source).

Further:

I'm going to go to the Met now to follow up on a few things, and I got to thinking about what's my favorite Buddhist work. First one that came to mind was the Arhat. There are some others I fondly remember. I'm going to have to ask my daughter to pick her own section, so we can see what she wants, because she's a great character who likes to do things her way, like her mother.

I decided to ask everyone I know what their favorite work at the Met is. Friends and family by email, Bluesky, Reddit, my soccer discord.

Rich likes The Glorification of the Barbaro Family.

Hammy liked the hippo.

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