Whenever I am in Boston I have to go to the Museum of Fine Art Boston. One of the finest museums in the world, the MFAB has a wonderful rotunda featuring John Singer Sargent murals.
One of my favorite American portrait painters, Sargent lived most of his life in Europe. He painted house sized portraits of the wealthy and the aristocracy. Tired of painting portraits (the rich probably bitched too much!), Sargent turned to landscapes.
Near the end of his life, he painted the entrance to the MFAB, and he worked on the MFAB murals until his death. For me, the entrance to this museum has the holy feeling of Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. I've been told that the new wing to the MFAB, now under construction, will have an entire gallery devoted to John Singer Sargent.
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