bowers museum

the bowers museum

 

The bowers museum was made and founded by a French dancer and her husband the reason behind this was that they couldn’t have kids so they decided on a this museum would be there child because of their love of art so they began collecting bits and pieces whilst the museum was under construction they had set it out to look like a manor house witch confuses most people I was one of them.

 

the bowers museum is known best for the silver swan it was one of the first peace's to be purchest and shown in the museum the silver swan is a sight to behold but if thinking of going to see the silver swan you haft go at specific times due to the age of the silver swan it only moves at set times due to the age of the swan the original bottom that looks like a bath tub was the original encasing for the silver swans mechanisms made of full brass but it has warn down due to the age and with the moving peaises they have waraway the sides but they keep it on display to show people what was used back then and it has some parts along with it that have been replaced in the silver swan so to give you a glimps of some of the workings that goes on inside a woundefull peace and if you get a chance to go I sugest you do if only for the silver swan alown.

 



 the three peaces bellow are also on show at the bowers museum out of the hole trip I found these three were my favrets the annunciation and adoration altarpiece I like due to the amount of detail the have managed to put into sutch a small peace it realy inspires me for what I would like to do in the futcher making peaces that just have such defining feachers no matter the size.

 the peace Madame d' Arbelles and her son 1808 realy spoke to me im still un sure why but it is one of my favrets just due to the fact that it cault my eye witch rearly hapons.  

the peace an Italian girl with a tambourine is another painting that caught my eye I think what I like about the peaces is there is a sens of her being caught off gard this is hard to do aspechaly in a painting but its captered that moment perfectly so that she is surprised but yet carys on playing but uthere than that Im unsuer what It is about this painting that caught my eye.