{"id":608,"date":"2009-03-30T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-07-13T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T00:32:47","slug":"a-day-at-the-met-march-30-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"A Day at the Met, March 29, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/WynnVermeer.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more The 29th Vermeer I've seen, out of 36--><\/p>\n<p>Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas hotel millionaire, recently sold this painting to an unknown buyer. It is currently hanging in the Met next to 5 other Vermeers and will be up until 1 June 2009. I don&#8217;t know where it will go after that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/WynnVermeerDetail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/Eakins.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love it when painters (these both American painters) put themselves in the scene. It&#8217;s then a self portrait. Others come to mind. Yan Eyck&#8217;s The Arnolfini Marriage. Vel\u00e1zquez&#8217;s Las Meninas is much more overt. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/ColeSelfPortrait.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/MadameX.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Madame X strap controversy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/Sargent.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/SargentGirls.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some say Sargent could have been gay because of the way he represented men. No way. The way these women look and their expressions, I can&#8217;t imagine him NOT getting massive amounts of action. I believe the stories of his adventures in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/LittleMan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebuffington.net\/photos\/LittleManCard.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,16],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-vermeer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikebuffington.net\/02\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}