Wednesday, October 6, 2010

luminous luma


The Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) is one of Chicago's museum gems, and this week they're featuring tours by candlelight of their Martin D’Arcy Collection. As LUMA itself details: "Walk through the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque galleries and see the art with new eyes, viewing the work as it would have been seen when it was created hundreds of years ago." The pictured The Penitent Magdalen by Georges de la Tour is at the Met and not LUMA, but thoughts of Baroque art by candlelight brought it to mind. It all sounds great, especially at this time of year with candles and bulbs flickering a little bit earlier each night.