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The new classical galleries in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of art.
During the first half of the nineteenth century American architects, artists, and artisans faithfully followed, often in their own distinctive ways, the dictum of the eighteenth-century German archaeologist, scholar, and leader of the classical revival in Europe, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), who wrote: "There is only one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled: by imitating the Ancients." (1) The fascination with the classical past has left a prodigious legacy of art and artifacts, from templelike Greek revival buildings to paintings and sculpture imbued with symbolic mythological references and decorative arts that followed the forms and ...
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