Wednesday, January 1, 2014

THE LEON LEVY AND SHELBY WHITE COURT -- New York Metropolitan Museum of Art -- (McKim, Mead and White, 1926).

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For Something Greek and Roman to See   You might want to pay a visit. You can get up close and personal with the history of those periods in the museum's awesome Greek and Roman Galleries, a spectacular "museum-within-the-museum" for one of the finest collections in the world of Hellenistic, Etruscan, South Italian and Roman art.Five years in the making and on two floors, the galleries contain treasures unseen for generations. The galleries centerpiece is the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court - a monumental, peristyle court occupinges an area created by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White between 1912 and 1926 that evokes the garden of a Roman villa.

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