Baltimore Museum of Art

We visited this large and diverse museum on Sunday morning.  It has a temporary exhibition of modern suspended installations..

As well as fabulous traditional works by the most famous painters and sculptors from all over the world. 

 This wonderful painting by Botticelli has surely featured on many Christmas cards.

There are several Rodin sculptures in the galleries.  The juxtaposition of ‘The Kiss’ with the large oil painting of the rather disapproving lady made us smile..

This bronze sculpture by Magritte was a talking point for many visitors.

One room was devoted to the stained glass and mosaic work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, below is a detail of a very large window.

In a courtyard gallery an extraordinary collection of huge mosaic floors from Antioch (present day Syria)

The museum has major collections of Asian ceramics, this Chinese set of dishes caught my eye.

This room was set up to represent the sitting room of the Cone sisters, two major benefactors of the museum who gave a priceless collection of modern art which fills an entire gallery.

Finally this beautiful bronze statue  of Guam Yin, goddess of compassion and peace, who had clearly been revered in her original setting judging by her well polished and worn knee and foot.