If you’re wondering why it’s been quiet here on A Scholarly Skater, it’s because I’ve been out of town. I just returned from Newport, Rhode Island, where I saw eight spectacular Gilded Age mansions in three days!
So many mansions!
I’ve just downloaded all of my photos from the trip (425 in total), and I’m starting to write about my experiences. I’m going to be typing for a while, so enjoy a few photos in the meantime.
The Breakers’ foyer from the balcony. This house is nuts!
Since I’m never content to work on only one project or subject at a time, I’m also reading several wonderful books about Gothic cathedrals and working on an awesome art appreciation project with some help from a friend. All of that will be coming up as well.
A portrait of Lady Decies by Giovanni Boldoni. It’s on display at The Elms.The Stanford White-designed dining room at Kingscote, with Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass.
Alexandra Kiely, aka A Scholarly Skater, is an art historian based in the northeastern United States. She loves wandering down the dark and dusty corners of art history and wholeheartedly believes in visual art's ability to enrich every person's life.
Her favorite periods of art history are 19th-century American painting and medieval European art and architecture. When she not looking at, reading about, writing about, or teaching art, she's probably ice dancing or reading.
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A Scholarly Skater 
They are wonderful, we saw them all in 2015, loved everyone of them, look forward to your take on them 🙂
I’ll try not to disappoint. 🙂
I’m sure you won’t 🙂