Statens Museum for Kunst

The past few months have been so long and so dark and so cold and so wet!  We've all been sick, it seems constantly, and on days when we were all feeling good, we didn't want to leave the house anyway.  Well, we finally had this past Saturday, where we decided we needed to get out of the house.  After a bit of discussion, our destination was settled.  The Statens Museum for Kunst.  Also known as the National Art Gallery.  It's a huge museum and with 3 small kids, we barely touched it, but we still enjoyed it quite a bit.  I wish I knew more about art, but we were still able to appreciate the beauty of what we saw.  Of course, I just love anything old.
We spent most of our time walking through the European Art section from the 1600's to 1800's.  In here we saw some Rembrandts

 and some Renoirs, and A LOT of naked butts.  Haha. =)  Seriously.  Living in Europe, you kind of become numb to nudity.  It's not meant to be pornographic in nature, but just to be appreciated as beauty.  Our kids don't even seem to notice it, except for a strange painting in the more modern art section of the museum.  Lexi was quite confused as to why the painting had multiple parts, if you know what I mean....  Anyway....!
I really enjoyed seeing all the beautiful paintings.  I think that landscapes are my favorite, but it is also amazing to see how the artists are able to capture a human's features.

  There were a couple of paintings I couldn't stop looking at how intricate the eyes were.  Amazing!  There were also a few paintings I couldn't stop looking at because they were so strange!  There was one in particular.  One of the strangest paintings I've ever seen.  It's a little risque, so I won't post it here.  It's called the Fall of the Titans.  And was painted in 1590!  Everyone in it is naked, but several are strategically covered with insects.  Strange!  If you are really curious, here is the wikipedia page. But, don't say I didn't warn you!
After viewing the older paintings, we briefly checked out the Danish artist section.  Apart from a beautiful Carl Bloch painting

Carl Bloch painted a lot of pictures that are used by the LDS church.  This painting doesn't have the same type of theme, obviously, but was very rich in detail.  However, my favorite part is the girl that appears to have a napkin on her head.  It reminds me of Lexi a couple of years ago, when she use to walk around with a towel on her head, all the time.

and several bizarre statues,

Weird, right?

And a little scary.  Ok, a lot scary!

we weren't too excited about this section.  The kids were definitely getting burned out.

Noah ran ahead of us into the next room and when we followed after him, this is what we found.  Love it!

 So, we decided to take a very quick tour of the Modern Art section, where aside from the Edvard Munch painting,

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter that painted the famous painting, The Scream. 

the most exciting thing to happen was Noah jumping up and down several times and losing his pants in the process.  We decided it was definitely time to go! 

Paintings on old Sarcophagus's.

This is a copy of Leonardo DaVinci's - Madonna on the Rocks.  It was painted in the 1600's, but author unknown.  I think they use to have students that would paint copies of the great paintings during the time.  I thought it was pretty cool.

They had this room, with several huge paintings around the walls and little booths like this to sit at where you could play a game.  It was a nice rest.

We spent a little time walking around Rosenborg Castles Gardens and through the pedestrian street in Copenhagen, but we were pretty tired and ready to head home.  I really like Copenhagen.  It's just so alive.  The sights, the sounds, the smells.  I'm glad for this opportunity to spend time in a big city.