Word: aedicular
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...procession of spaces through the 22 new galleries finely modulated and keyed to the contents; where large sculpture needs lots of light and air (plus a whiff of drama), it gets them from a high greenhouse gallery; and where the smaller size of early modernist painting wants a more aedicular and comfortable sense of scale, it gets that...
With its dignified rooms, passing from grand to aedicular scale and back again, Palazzo Grassi is an excellent place to look at art. The show has art and a good deal else, including such totems of futurist affection as a 1911 Bleriot monoplane and a World War I Spad hanging from the cortile roof, and a vintage Bugatti by the canal entrance, to remind one of Marinetti's belligerent and much quoted dictum that "a roaring motorcar that seems to run ( on shrapnel is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace...
...wanted me to win." In the Exeter Library, Kahn refused to countenance the idea of a reading hall and produced instead a series of zones of privacy tucked away "in the folds of construction. I like early Gothic libraries I've seen," he says. "There was a high aedicular quality to them; they were small places, intimate...
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