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Sir John Soane's museum. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
This year marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Sir John Soane, the architect and collector who dominated much of Britain's artistic life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His style was essentially classical, but he was not a slavish follower of Greek and Roman details. Soane's best known works are the Bank of England and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and because he married a wealthy woman, he was able to indulge his passion for collecting as well as design and build a substantial house for himself at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. He left the house and its contents to the nation on his death in 1837.
Substantial improvements to Sir John Soane's Museum are in progress, in particular the addition of new exhibition and education facilities as well as restoration work to the neighboring house and the complex of the Three Courtyards. These are "outside rooms" designed to house medieval ruins and other architectural ...
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...number 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, designed by architect Sir John Soane for himself at the beginning of the 19th century--and now a densely packed jewel box of a museum. Sir John Soane's Museum is really the middle house of three built...
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Sir John Soane's biographer, Gillian Darley, described...worth checking out. And well done, the Sir John Soane's Museum, for engaging fruitfully...Beauty, Joy and the Real' is at Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields...
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...Museum. The collection on view in Sir John Soane's Museum, displayed as he organised...possible in the state in which Sir John Soane shall leave it'. The stipulation...Victoria and Albert Museum to succeed Sir John Summerson in 1984, is presiding...
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...exhibition that has just opened at the Sir John Soane Museum, in conjunction with Pollock...toy theatre. Will Palin of the Sir John Soane Museum says 'the Regency theatre...Theatre" runs until March 27th at Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn...
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...forms the southeast corner, an extension designed by Sir John Soane in 1791 completes the east front, and a major recasting...Soane's best documented houses, and the archives in Sir John Soane's Museum allow insight into his working methods and...
Source: HighBeam Research, Sir John Soane's museum. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)