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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever cried in a museum? What was the art museum? Was it a van Gogh? [View all]dumbcat
(2,120 posts)17. It wasn't Van Gogh, but Francisco Goya
... and I probably didn't actually cry (men aren't supposed to do that) but I got pretty emotional internally.
It was in The Prado museum in Madrid in 2008, and they were having a special exhibit on Goya. I spent the whole day in there. He was another, like Van Gogh, that had had a particularly difficult life and emotional turmoil, and it really came through in some of his works. The works from the period called "The Black Paintings" particularly got to me.
[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings|
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Have you ever cried in a museum? What was the art museum? Was it a van Gogh? [View all]
CTyankee
Jul 2021
OP
Yes, I remember being in Rome in a church where Caravaggio had painted several works for the
CTyankee
Jul 2021
#42
On a trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, I asked an attendant if he has seen this phenomenon.
CTyankee
Jul 2021
#23
Rembrandt just knocks the hell out of me. Look at Lucretia's tears in her eyes. Rembrandt knew how
CTyankee
Jul 2021
#24
Yes, at the Detroit Institute of Arts' "Ofrendas: Celebrating el Dia de Muertos" exhibit.
demmiblue
Jul 2021
#18
Yes. Goya was horrified by what he saw in those Disasters. He was a changed man after.
CTyankee
Jul 2021
#45
He started painting in blue after the shocking death of his friend, Casagemas.
CTyankee
Jul 2021
#46