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As the century began, many young European sculptors migrated to the free, booming economy across the Atlantic, and European trained sculptors account for much of the great work created before 1950. These include Elie Nadelman , Albin Polasek , Gaston Lachaise and Carl Milles .
1931, Conservation department established at the Walters Art Gallery [now “Museum”] under David Rosen, and chemist Arthur Kopp established a laboratory at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 1932-1942, Publication of Technical Studies in the Field of the Fine Arts, published for the Fogg Museum of Art, first technical journal.
The New York State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of Incorporation on April 13, 1870, "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general ...
Sculpture Marble Height 44 cm (17.3 in) 1 [4] Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni: Santa Prassede, Rome 1613–1616 Sculpture Marble Life-size 2 [4] A Faun Teased by Children: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1616–1617 Sculpture Marble Height 132 cm (52 in) NA [5] The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence: Uffizi, Florence 1617 Sculpture Marble
La Piscine Museum, Roubaix More images: Fireside Dream [17] 1899 Bronze and marble 22 x 29.5 x 24.5 La Piscine Museum, Roubaix More images: Image online [17] Fortune: 1900 Bronze 47.5 x 35.5 x 20.5 Perseus and the Gorgon [17] 1897 to 1902 Bronze 51 x 30 x 25 La Piscine Museum, Roubaix More images: Image online [17] Bust of Woman: 1903 Bronze 40 ...
Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, [1] a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE, Capitoline Museums, Rome Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, c. 800 –721 BCE Michelangelo's Moses, (c. 1513–1515), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay The Angel of ...
The terms 'art museum' and 'art gallery' may be used interchangeably as reflected in the names of institutions around the world, some of which are called galleries (e.g. the National Gallery and Neue Nationalgalerie), and some of which are called museums (e.g. the Museum of Modern Art and National Museum of Western Art).
The gallery's holdings today contain 192 sculptures, 583 drawings, 4 paintings, 291 architectural plans (almost entirely made by Ivan Meštrović and dating between 1898 and 1961), and 2 furniture sets, one of which is made according to Meštrović's sketches and is a part of the new permanent display in the former dining room.