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(Carnegie Institute: Entrance to Fine Arts Department)

no earlier than 1906

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(Carnegie Institute: Entrance to Fine Arts Department)
  • Title
  • (Carnegie Institute: Entrance to Fine Arts Department)
  • Creator
  • American
  • Date
  • no earlier than 1906
  • Identifier
  • 83.84.2
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 83.84.2
  • Description
  • Interior view of the Carnegie Institute showing the entrance to the Fine Arts Department. The eight-acre building contains six thousand tons of European marble, some from the very quarry that supplied Pentelic marble for the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Carnegie Institute is the grandest monument of Beaux Arts planning in Pittsburgh, and appeared in the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1911 as the exemplar of the modern museum.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Architecture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Sculpture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs, 1894-1958
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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