The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg<\/a> is putting its Monet where its mouth is.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is a wonderful work of art by Claude Monet from 1904,\u201d said Klaudio Rodriguez, executive director & CEO of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg of Monet\u2019s “Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog).”<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a treasure; I think there’s only maybe nine or 10 in the United States of this series to see,\u201d said Rodriguez. \u201cSo it’s a really unique opportunity to get to see one of these.\u201d<\/p>\n
The treasure will be heading to Milwaukee after the museum and the Milwaukee Art Museum agreed to a friendly wager. The museum on the losing side of the World Series would loan its painting to the winning team\u2019s hometown for a victory lap in their gallery.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez says the Milwaukee museum director initiated the wager.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll give her full credit because I was not thinking Monet-size wager,\u201d said Rodriguez. \u201cAnd she said, ‘If we’re going to go, we’re going to go big,’ so she said, ‘How about my Monet for yours?’ And I said, ‘We got this, absolutely,’ and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the Rays season over, that means St. Pete\u2019s Monet will be transported to Milwaukee for about three months.<\/p>\n
The masterpiece will be put in its own crate and transferred by an MFA courier.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work is cared for, climatized, everything else that needs to happen to make sure it it’s safe,\u201d said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
The masterpiece will be safe and ready to be admired by Milwaukee art lovers.<\/p>\n
While Rodriquez was hoping to add a Monet to MFA\u2019s gallery, he still see the loan as a fun way to celebrate the love of the Rays and the arts in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n
“Happy to share with them, and, you know, maybe next year we’ll get another one in return,” Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A World Series wager between St. Petersburg and Milwaukee museums had the winner saying,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1238,1187,115,596,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,3815,835],"class_list":["post-444322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-sports","tag-melissa-eichman","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-sports","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}