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American Art at the Brooklyn Museum
American Painting/ Decorative Arts at
the Met
Medieval Art at the Cloisters
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Tours
| American
Stories: Paintings
of Everyday Life, 1765-1915, at the Met |
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the dates |
Thursday 10 December at 10:00 and Friday 11
December at 6:00 |
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fee |
$47 seniors/$51 adults |
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The American public has never
quite taken to history painting based on stories of antique
heroes and Roman valor. In
its stead we have developed the often folksy narrative that
can instruct and instill moral values.
Sometimes the stories are amusing but invariably they
reveal an aspect of the American persona from that period of
time. This show is
organized chronologically and it will be interesting to
observe the changes in emphasis as we move along the American
historical line. One
important aspect will be our ability to separate fact from
fiction. Please
join us for this historical journey.
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The Roman Galleries at the Met |
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the dates |
tours arranged throughout the year |
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fee |
$47seniors/$51 adults |
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We've been very
patiently waiting for this "opening" to happen. First the museum
stopped feeding us amidst the recreated Roman atrium and then
they took away almost all of the Roman art and artifacts in
their collection and left us with a few sarcophagi, lots of
portrait busts, and an altar or two. It was hardly
representative of Roman sculpture or of the Met's
collection. At last, we are gifted with
the newly designed Roman Art galleries replete with enough
room to show off the Roman art in the collection. It
gives ARTalks the opportunity to highlight this period of art that
was ultimately a major stylistic influence on generations of
artists from the thirteenth-century Italian sculptor Nicola
Pisano to the eighteenth-century painter Jacques-Louis David.
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