Variations on antiquity: new exhibitions of classical art

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Five major museums have started to renovate their galleries devoted to classical art, thus dramatically improving the presentation for visitors. The museums are the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Vatican's Museo Etrusco Gregoriano and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Each institution has developed a distinctive way of presenting information, the most scholarly being that of the University of Pennsylvania museum, which has sponsored classical archaeological projects since 1910.

Museums, Art museums, British Museum, Vatican City, University of Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Art, Classical, Classical art

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Echoes of antiquity

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The exhibition 'Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo - The Cathedrals of Florence and Pavia, and St. Peter's, Rome,' is on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC through Mar 19, 1995. It includes 14 wooden models and 74 contemporary drawings, paintings, and medallions. It is an impressive and detailed presentation of a difficult topic, but the lighting in Washington is inadequate. Henry A. Millon is the show's curator.

Architecture, Italian, Italian architecture, Architecture, Renaissance, Renaissance architecture

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Ancient Chinese treasures; six thousand years of Chinese artistry is highlighted in a trio of exhibitions

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Exhibitions on Confucian Music, on the horse in Imperial China, and on the masterworks of Chinese archaeology are described. The first features many Chinese musical instruments, the second illustrates uses of the horse from about 1000 BC until 1911 AD, and the third brings together more than 200 Chinese masterworks from different periods.

China, History, Archaeology, Chinese history

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