Art museums make Super Bowl bet
- January 27, 2010 17:29
Two directors from Super Bowl contender city art museums–the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art–are getting in on the Big Game by wagering major art loans on the outcome of the Saints-Colts matchup. If the Colts win, IMA will get a three-month loan of NoMA’s 1644 painting “Ideal View of Tivoli” by Claude Lorrain. If the Saints win, NoMA will get to borrow IMA’s Joseph Turner oil painting “The Fifth Plague of Egypt."
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![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
