点评:This is one of America’s best art museums. Absolutely fabulous. We spent most of the day here and did not come close to seeing everything. The quality is uniformly high and the masterpieces abound. This has got to be one of very few American museums with a Donatello sculpture - and it has two! Incredible. There’s a whole bunch of magnificent paintings by Velasquez; the Dutch collection is truly glorious with the two, large Rembrandt portraits stealing the show; and, of course, the late nineteenth century is represented by an extraordinary assemblage of painting and sculpture from France. Museums in the northeastern United States are probably the best places in the world to see Monet, Manet, Van Gogh and the rest and Boston is no exception. Superb.
My favorite part of what I saw was probably the American art collection. Extraordinary paintings, sculpture and furniture. Obviously the large format paintings from John Singleton Copley, Thomas Sully and John Singer Sargent stand out, but this collection also integrates Latin American art into the story of American art. I don’t always love it when museums do this, as I think Latin American art is almost the polar opposite of the art produced in the North American colonies and in the early Republic, but the quality of Boston’s Latin collection is extremely high so it gets a pass. Amazing stuff to see everywhere even if it doesn’t really belong together.
翻译:这是美国最出色的艺术博物馆之一,简直棒极了。我们在这里待了一整天,却仍远远没能看完所有展品。馆内藏品的质量普遍很高,杰作更是数不胜数。这里绝对是全美为数不多藏有多纳泰罗雕塑作品的博物馆——而且竟然有两件!实在令人难以置信。馆内还有大量委拉斯开兹的杰出画作;荷兰画派的藏品也极为精彩,其中两幅伦勃朗的巨型肖像画尤为引人注目。当然,还有更多精彩展品等待您去发现。19世纪末的艺术作品则以大量来自法国的绘画与雕塑为代表。美国东北部的各大博物馆或许是世界上欣赏莫奈、马奈、梵高等人作品的最佳去处,波士顿的博物馆也不例外。棒极了。
在我所看到的展品中,我最喜欢的大概是美国的艺术收藏品。那些绘画、雕塑和家具都堪称卓越非凡。其中尤以约翰·辛格尔顿·科普利创作的大幅画作最为出色。托马斯·苏利和约翰·辛格·萨金特的作品尤为出色,不过这个收藏系列还将拉丁美洲艺术纳入了美国艺术的发展脉络之中。我其实不太喜欢博物馆这样做——因为我觉得拉丁美洲艺术与北美殖民地及早期共和国时期的艺术风格几乎截然相反。不过波士顿博物馆所收藏的拉丁美洲艺术品质量极高,因此这一点也就可以原谅了。即便这些作品在风格上并不相融,但每一件都值得细细欣赏。