ArtJune 2010 Palladian lessons by Marco Grassi On “Palladio and his Legacy, a Transatlantic Journey” at the Morgan Library & Musuem.
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 ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 June 2010, on page 42 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Palladian-lessons-5328
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