Word: palladian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum, designed by William T. Aldrich of Boston. Its exterior is in the familiar Institutional Renaissance, but the interior, adapted largely from the new Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, is one of the most efficient museum buildings in the country. As in the Fogg, galleries stem from a central Palladian arcaded courtyard...
...Europe to find new artists to draw circus posters. His interest is genuine; he picks out most of the purchases himself. Mr. John is still enough of a circus man to like his pictures big. He has the largest private collection of Rubens in the world. The pink stucco, palladian-arched John & Mable Ringling Museum contains about 20 galleries and features mountainous bronze reproductions of Michaelangelo's David and the Father Nile and Father Tiber from the Vatican Gardens. It is useless to show him modern pictures, but dealers have dis covered that if they have nothing large...
Setting was simple; the solemnly stalking constables and the noblemen of Messina appeared before the same Palladian arch, altered to suit the needs of the scene; but the bright costumes of the players varied to fit the varied brilliance of the speech and the acting...