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I was recently in Syracuse, where they have a NEW museum but full of what looks like (but undoubtedly is not) all the stuff found in excavations there and the surroundings, including hundreds of votive figures, presented so that one could even follow changing style through the centuries. It was wonderful, surrounded by a garden that could only have been improved by an a small "bar" (in the italian sense, where one could by ice cream.)
Meg
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> A new set of views of the chapelle Saint-Didier in Langres' ex-église
Saint-Didier, now part of the city's Musée d'art et d'histoire (Musée Guy
Baillet):
the contrast between
> http://tinyurl.com/33tqbq
and
> http://tinyurl.com/cgnod8m
is rather striking --and speaks volumes about concepts of building usage (to
say nothing about concepts of "art" display).
of course, a "dépôt lapidaire" is not, strictly speaking, a Musée.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/architecture/4512163-d%C3%A9p%C3%B4t_lapidaire.html
but i am put in mind of my first trip to the Louvre in the late '60s of the
last century of the last millennium.
i recall wandering into a largish gallery, unlit save for an exterior wall of
windows (it was mid-summer, but still rather gloomy in there).
the other three sides of the room were lined with huge glass cases, each one
filled with shelves and shelves and shelves of Greek pots, one next to the
other, hundreds and hundreds of them (or so it seemed), with hardly an
identifying étiquette to be seen, save perhaps at the top of each case.
i had just come from a semester's survey class in Greek art and had seen only
a few dozen pots --only the "best" in the medium of course-- and had, quite
literally, no idea whatever that exemplars of such "art" once existed in the
scores of thousands.
in the mid-80s of the last century of the last millennium i had occasion to
revisit that Louvre room.
it looked rather like the sterile Musée Guy Baillet ("tout propre" is the
right French term, i believe).
what's *wrong* with this picture?
http://tinyurl.com/cgnod8m
it's a bit like getting an historical lobotomy.
there must be *some* sort of space, somewhere, between those two extremes.
c
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