J.M.W. Turner's painting, "The Fifth Plague of Egypt"
A bit of hometown rivalry between New Orleans Museum of Art Director E. John Bullard and Indianapolis Museum of Art CEO Maxwell Anderson is causing waves in the art world as we get closer to the Super Bowl. Friendly teasing soon escalated to online trash talking through Twitter and a little wager over the outcome of the big game. If the Colts win, NOMA will be sending “Ideal View of Tivoli,” a 1644 work by Claude Lorrain to Indianapolis for three months. If the Saints march it in, IMA will be forfeiting “The Fifth Plague of Egypt”a landscape painted by J.M.W. Turner in 1800 for three months. Each painting encapsulates the best of each museusm’s collections, so lending them out will be h
Claude Lorrain's "Ideal View of Tivoli"
ard. We’ll find out on Sunday who will be eating crow!
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