Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market

Fans of European markets that we are, we had to see Philadelphia's famous Reading Terminal Market. We were not disappointed: another reason to get back to Philly.

The market is beneath the old station

Been there for a while

Historical display

Helpful map; needed, too

We'd read that this was the place for pulled pork

Dinic's

My half of the Italian pulled pork sandwich

At the nearby strawberry shop...waiting to be inundated with chocolate

Another niche place

Street scenes...

In one of the better bulk stores we've seen

Dessert-time beckoned

59 varieties; almost

Plus this apple dumpling...we were thus energized for the
sights and museums ahead

Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 3

I really thought I could do the PMA in two swell foops, but, alas, there's just too much good stuff...

Continuing the chair theme, here's another, by Charles Rennie
Mackintosh. for one of Glasgow's tea houses

Lovely art nouveau stuff all around

Munch, Alpha's Despair, 1908; screaming?!

Renoir, Aline Charigot, 1885; eventually Madame Renoir

Another later Monet experiment: Pointillism (sort of), all just
little dots...Bend in the Epte River Near Giverny, 1885

Among the Hicks Peaceable Kingdom paintings (he did many)

Conscientious museum

Among the extensive Americana

Ditto

Hicks, Noah's Ark, 1846

Drexel, The Drexel and Gallagher Families, 1825

Huge collections of silver

Drawing Room Suite by Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Benjamin West, Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity
from the Sky, 1805; note Franklin's statically-raised hair...

Copley, Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin, 1773...

just before he emigrated to England; we'll see a lot more 

Copley in Boston

Benjamin West, Agrippina Landing at Brindisium with the Ashes
of Germanicus, 1770

Among several rooms of furniture, painting, and more; we still love
Old Brown Furniture

1733 Map of British North America

Exiting through the gift shoppe...who comes to this museum
to see the Rocky crap?

Parthian shot from the Uber...great, great museum!

Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 2

Continuing our visit to Philadelphia's great art museum...

Every great museum has a super-sized elevator for hauling
the large-format stuff around; every elevator in the PMA,
with one exception we found, is this large!

Enamel plaques mounted on oak, a Nativity, etc., c. 1500, Limoge, France,
notable because it is by The Master of the Large Foreheads

Detail from an altarpiece, carved and painted, late Medieval,
The Circumcision; ouch; note crucificado pose...foreshadowing... 

Team Rubens' Prometheus Bound, 1618; eagle by Snyders
(Rubens didn't do birds)

Another gorgeous drawing room, 19th, French?

Judith Leyster, The Last Drop, 1639

Another Steen, Rhetoricians at a Window, c. 1660; a thing
in 17th century Netherlands, readings and criticism to the
street; and derision therefrom

Nice, typical Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1629

Poussin, Birth of Venus, 1635; sorry, no comparison with Botticelli

Louise-Elizabeth Vigee-LeBrun, Portrait of Madame Du Barry;
two of the more interesting of 18th century women, Louis XIV's
mistress and great arbiter of taste, and the greatest portrait painter
of the age; Vigee-LeBrun lived to tell about too...

A Vernet that is not a harbor scene...Villa at Caprarola, 1746; 
brought to Philadelphia by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of the emperor,
in 1815, a good year to get out of Dodge

Favorite son

Pennsylvania Dutch kitchen scene, Millbach, c. 1752

Contemporaneous bust of Bernini by Bernardo Fioriti, 1660;
Bernini was the greatest of all sculptors, IMO

Huge tapestry of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza being served by 
the ladies, Goeblins, Paris, 1720s

Hubert Robert, Ruins of a Roman Bath, 1766

Obligatory Canaletto, Rialto Bridge, 1730; relatively small version

One of two Turners, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1835;
not a late Turner, but getting there

David, Pope Pius VII and Cardinal Caprara, c. 1808; Napoleon
held the pope hostage at Fountainebleau until the latter finally
blessed N's coronation; posing here with the French cardinal

Delacroix, Interior of a Madrid Dominican Convent, 1831

Drawing room from Lansdowne House, by Robert Adam, later 1700s

Two paintings from an exhibition on Van Gogh's Sunflowers

Berthe Morisot, Young Girl with a Basket, 1892

Monet, Nympheas, Japanese Bridge, 1820s; experimenting with new
styles, color,  brushwork...very late in his career

Miro, Horn, Pipe, and Red Flower, 1920

Hector Guimard, Fireplace and other stuff from Castel Beranger, 
Paris, an apartment house he designed; inside and out, top to bottom;
muy famoso

More Guimard (a favorite), golden platter, hankie designed for his wife

Guimard chair