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June 2010

Palladian lessons

by Marco Grassi

On “Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” at the Morgan Library & Musuem.

Andrea Palladio, Design for the Villa Repeta at Campaglia (c. 1560s), RIBA British Architechtural Library 

Visiting the Morgan Library since its 2006 reinvention as the “Morgan Library and Museum” has not been, for many of us, a particularly life-enhancing experience. The added “museum” function, grafted onto the Morgan’s continuing role as a unique repository for the literary, musical, and graphic arts, is only one of the problems with this new incarnation. Another is the attempt to weld into a coherent whole the institution’s disparate buildings, born in different periods a ...

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Marco Grassi is a private paintings conservator and dealer in New York.


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 June 2010, on page 42

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