The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The History and Legacy of America’s Largest Art Museum by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2018-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

The 1908 addition brought other changes to the museum, as the architects, McKim, Mead & White, detailed in a report: “In undertaking the development of the general plan, it was our aim, first, to secure an arrangement of buildings and courts, of galleries and corridors, which should provide ample exhibition spaces, abundant light, free circulation and units of dimensions so flexible as to permit of the utmost freedom in the future development of individual parts. Architecturally we sought to establish a scale which would give a proper sense of proportion and dignity to the building which was intended to house the greatest museum of fine arts in America, and which from its purpose, its setting, and its very dimensions was destined to be the most important public edifice in New York.”

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