Bob Jones Religious Art Museum
Posted by Fay on November 9, 2009
Our tour today was a second visit back to Bob Jones University Art Gallery. 
Our previous visit was to view their antiquities collection. This one focused on the religious art collection. About 900 pieces of paintings, furniture, sculpture. This is a description from their web site:
Italian, Spanish, French, English, Flemish, Dutch, and German sacred art from the 14th through the 19th centuries in over 25 galleries. Works by major artists such as Rubens, van Dyck, Reni, Tintoretto, Le Brun, Cranach, Ribera, and Murillo are aesthetically exhibited with period furniture, sculpture, tapestries, and porcelains to lend a period ambience to the galleries and to give patrons a panoramic view of ages past.
Our guide was tremendous. She cover quite a bit in an hour. Bob and I both left wanting to visit again and learn more. The guided tour makes all the difference because we know so little about art and need all the help we can get. We definitely want to go on some more tours. I figured out if we spent one minute on each of the 900 pieces of art it would take us 15 hours to go through the museum. The have a smaller gallery in the arts district so people can get an idea of what the larger collection is.
Next Monday we visit the museum I have been most anxious to see – The Upcountry Museum. On Wednesday in honor of Veterans Day they start a new World War II exhibit.
I hope I have enticed at least a few of my blog followers to go explore life in whatever way appeals to them. Go explore what you aren’t sure about and do the unexpected adventure. You take a few hours or a day that you would have spent watching TV or spending time on the internet and have an adventure. That’s where the biggest rewards are. Our best adventures have been where we least expected them – like the quarry tour.
Let me know where your exploration takes you. I know you will grow from the experience.
