Recently, I went to the Sunken Treasures exhibit at the VMFA. I wasn't overwhelmed, but I wasn't underwhelmed, either. This one particular marble statue took me back to when I was in Egypt almost 20 years ago and made a sad attempt to sketch the mask of King Tut. I've kept all my sketchbooks over the years, and this is one of the earliest ones from life I did. The marble statue at the exhibit was so well preserved you could almost feel where the artists from centuries ago, chiseled every single detail. The mask of King Tut, while it is one of the most famous treasures to come out of Egypt, it wasn't my favorite piece at the Cairo Museum. There were other pieces that I thought were much more impressive.
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