Louvre Atlanta features great artworks from Paris. |
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Alessandro Algardi, Jupiter
Striking Down the Titans, 17th century before 1654,
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Visitors to Atlanta's High Museum
of Art will be able to view hundreds of masterpieces from
the Louvre in Paris from October 2006 - 2009, thanks to an
unprecedented partnership between the museums. The Louvre
Atlanta collaboration will also include educational programs,
joint bilingual publications, conferences, films and seminars.
The High won't have a problem accommodating national
and international art lovers, having initiated a building
expansion program in the late 1990s. Designed by Italian
architect Renzo Piano, three new buildings more than doubled
the Museum's original size to 312,000 square feet,
creating a dynamic “village for the arts” that
had its grand opening in November 2005.
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October 14, 2006 - September 2, 2007
Royal Collections: Kings as Collectors
October 14,
2006 - January 28, 2007
Royal Collections:
The King's Drawings, including
Raphael's The Portrait Castiglione
High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA
404.733.4400; www.high.org
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Top: the High Museum's new Anne
Cox Chambers Wing (left) and Wieland Pavilion (back right),
both designed by Renzo Piano to connect with the Museum's
original building (front right), which was designed by Richard
Meier. Bottom, from left: Raphael, Portrait of Baldassare
Castiglione, 1514 - 1515, oil
on canvas. Sèvres, d'après Louis-Simon
Boizot, Bust of Marie Antoinette, 1782, porcelain.
Diego Velasquez, The Infanta Margarita, 1653, oil on canvas.
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Photo credit
First image: Courtesy of High Museum of Art ©Jonathan
Hillyer 2005, Other images Courtesy of
Musée
du Louvre. Photo by Peter Harholdt |
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