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Canova and museum
Italian sculptors whose work is held by the museum include: Bartolomeo Bon, Bartolomeo Bellano, Luca della Robbia, Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Agostino di Duccio, Andrea Riccio, Antonio Rossellino, Andrea del Verrocchio, Antonio Lombardo, Andrea Riccio, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Andrea della Robbia, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Michelangelo ( represented by a freehand wax model and casts of his most famous sculptures ), Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Algardi, Antonio Calcagni, Benvenuto Cellini ( Medusa's head dated c1547 ), Agostino Busti, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giacomo della Porta, Giambologna ( Samson Slaying a Philistine ( Giambologna ) c1562, his finest work outside Italy ), Bernini ( Neptune and Triton c1622 – 3 ), Giovanni Battista Foggini, Vincenzo Foggini ( Samson and the Philistines ), Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Antonio Corradini, Andrea Brustolon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Innocenzo Spinazzi, Canova, Carlo Marochetti and Raffaelle Monti.
It was designed by Leo von Klenze in the Greek revival style as a prelude to the museum and features neoclassical marble sculptures by Antonio Canova and his followers.
Napoleon remarked to Antonio Canova that its lack in the museum he accumulated in Paris was the most important gap in the collection, and the sculpture was more than once crated ready for shipment to Paris before the Napoleonic regime fled Naples.
Today the sinister Canova medallion, reputed to have been used in at least 65 murders, along with an aged hand-written document of 1831 supporting Behram's son Ali's continuance at an Indigo factory ( Correspondence from the Quarter Master General ’ s office regarding the Indigo Factory in the Sepoy Lines at Vellore ) are preserved in a private museum.
Certainly we know that the immediate model for the work was a full-scale plaster group that has survived and is now to be found in the Canova museum in Possagno, Italy.

Canova and cast
In 1980, he joined the cast of I'm a Big Girl Now, a sitcom starring Diana Canova and Danny Thomas.
Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California, Canova was accompanied by a cast that included voicemaster Mel Blanc as Pedro ( using the accented voice he later gave the cartoons ' Speedy Gonzales ) and Sylvester ( using the voice that later became associated with the Looney Tunes character ), Ruth Perrott as Aunt Aggie, Ruby Dandridge as Geranium, Joseph Kearns as Benchley Botsford and Sharon Douglas as Brenda — with Gale Gordon, Sheldon Leonard, and Hans Conried also making periodic appearances.
There is a permanent collection of European and Irish art along with a collection of casts of classical Greek and Roman statues cast by Antonio Canova and brought to Cork from the Vatican in 1818.

museum and plaster
The original burial monument sculptures are displayed within the museum, having been replaced by plaster replicas in situ.
The museum displays a number of bronze and plaster sculptures by the Maltese artist Antonio Sciortino ( 1879 – 1947 ) and paintings by Edward Caruana Dingli ( 1876 – 1950 ).
The final part of the museum designed by Scott was the Art Library and what is now the sculpture gallery on the south side of the garden, built 1877 – 83, the exterior mosaic panels in the parapet were designed by Reuben Townroe who also designed the plaster work in the library, Sir John Taylor designed the book shelves and cases, also this was the first part of the museum to have electric lighting.
One of the most dramatic parts of the museum is the Cast Courts in the sculpture wing, comprising two large, skylighted rooms two storeys high housing hundreds of plaster casts of sculptures, friezes and tombs.
Vigeland's flat on the third floor was preserved as a part of the museum which houses various works by the artist, along with the plaster models of the Vigeland Park sculptures.
In 1855 he was appointed director of the royal collections of antiquities and the museum of plaster casts at Dresden, to which posts were subsequently added that of director of the historical museum and a professorship at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic.
Later, an authorized fiberglass replica was made from the original plaster model for use by Macy's in their display windows ; it was later moved to a museum in Savannah.
Since 1883, the marble figure has been displayed in the Louvre, while a plaster replica stands in the museum at the original location of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace.
The museum contains excellent local examples of Roman mosaics and wall plaster.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts has about twenty of Grafly's bronzes in its collection, while the museum at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas possesses over two hundred of his works, mostly plaster casts, from the late Charles and Dorothy Grafly Drummond ( the artist's daughter ).
The museum purchased its first collection of some one hundred plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures with its first gift from prominent local citizen Henry Corbett, who donated $ 10, 000 for the acquisition.
After Buttermilk died in 1972, his hide was stretched over a plaster likeness and put on display at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California ( the museum has since been relocated to Branson, Missouri ).
The Busch-Reisinger was located in Adolphus Busch Hall from 1921-1991 and the hall continues to house the Busch-Reisinger's founding collection of medieval plaster casts, as well as an exhibition on the history of the museum.

museum and cast
The original is held at the art museum Ateneum, but copies cast from the original mould exist in Turku, in Jyväskylä, in front of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium and at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Grill Room 1876 – 81 was designed by Sir Edward Poynter, the lower part of the walls consist of blue and white tiles with various figures and foliage enclosed by wood panelling, above there are large tiled scenes with figures depicting the four seasons and the twelve months these were painted by ladies from the Art School then based in the museum, the windows are also stained glass, there is an elaborate cast iron grill still in place.
A cast of the pianist's hands, at the Łódź museum
The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, and ornate architecture — sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature — both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the vaulted central hall.
In 2003, with the permission of the Barnett Newman Foundation, a fourth edition of the sculpture Broken Obelisk ( 1963 ) by Barnett Newman was cast and temporarily installed in front of the museum.
The museum consists of a large square court with a glass roof, supported by cast iron pillars, which divide the court into three aisles.
In 2004 the museum acquired a reproduction cast of a fossil Tyrannosaurus rex which is mounted in a running posture.
Hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, fictional curator of the Black Museum at Scotland Yard, it featured an allegedly all-British cast and told stories inspired by artifacts held by the famous London crime museum.
While in Europe, she also influenced hat styles on the continent as well as spring fashion collections, featuring the Dunham line and Caribbean Rhapsody, and the Chiroteque Française made a bronze cast of her feet for a museum of important personalities.
In 1874, the museum acquired one hundred human skulls from Austrian anatomist and phrenologist, Joseph Hyrtl ( 1810 – 1894 ); a nineteenth century corpse, dubbed the " soap lady ;" the conjoined liver and death cast of Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese twins ; and in 1893, Grover Cleveland's jaw tumor.
The story also features a supporting cast of animal characters, the most commonly appearing of which is the physically strong and heavy Hippopotamus ( Begemot, " Behemoth "), who participates in various roles ( e. g., a museum caretaker, shop keeper, passer-by, etc.
The museum was built on the site of a former ironworks and this is reflected in two spectacular cast iron stairwells within the building.
Inside the museum is a cast iron statue by John Bell ( 1811 – 1896 ).
Mercer personally designed plans for a museum to house his collection, six stories tall and cast of poured-in-place concrete.
A small museum dedicated to the film can be found in the town, and is run by one of the cast members.
The Museum of Science and Natural History actually had a large statue of the dinosaur constructed to go along with their cast, and it was on display for many years when the museum was located at the Tower Building.
She had made life castings for museum clients, including the Smithsonian, so when she was introduced to Charlie Metro, former major league player, she asked if she could cast his hands holding a bat.
Charles West, the major donor of the early museum, cast his votes in favor of Eden Park sealing its final location.

museum and gallery
* Meffan Institute, museum and art gallery in Forfar
At over it is the largest art gallery on campus and the only art museum with a permanent collection in the Upper Peninsula.
An art museum, also known as an art gallery, is a space for the exhibition of art, usually in the form of art objects
In a gallery on the first floor, the museum presents the history of ramen in Japan, including the big success of instant ramen.
The winner of the Daytona 500 is presented with the Harley J. Earl Trophy in Victory Lane, and the winning car is displayed, in race-winning condition, for one year at Daytona 500 Experience, a museum and gallery adjacent to Daytona International Speedway.
The school's Grant Park, Columbus Avenue, building, attached to the museum, houses a premier gallery showcase.
The palace is now a museum and houses an important collection of Graeco-Roman antiques and a fine gallery of paintings comprising the second largest collection of Rembrandts in Germany.
It was obtained by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1978 and today is operated as a museum and gallery.
As well as an art gallery, falconry courses and a café, Lower Loxley also boasts a garden and a museum.
The Highlanes Gallery houses Drogheda's important municipal art collection which dates from the 17th century as well as visiting exhibitions in a venue which meets key international museum and gallery standards.
The National Palace Museum is an art gallery and museum built around a permanent collection centered on ancient Chinese artifacts.
* Bedford Museum & Art Gallery, a local museum and art gallery serving North Bedfordshire
The art gallery ( Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein ) is a museum of modern and contemporary art.
It comprises a museum, a gallery of portraits and historical pictures and a library, which stores important documents and books associated with Patel and his life.
Situated 500 metres from the museum, in the new village, is an art gallery which displays permanent and temporary exhibitions.
Another museum is the Frans Hals Museum of fine arts, with its main location housing Dutch master paintings, and its exhibition halls on the Grote Markt housing a gallery for modern art called De Hallen.
When the house became a museum, the gallery the Frank sisters created was preserved under glass.
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.
A private picture gallery as an early precursor of the modern museum.
The museum also contains science galleries, a planetarium, a gallery for children's exhibits, a fire museum, a sculpture garden and an 18th century schoolhouse.
Inscribed on large displays are the names of the inductees, and the museum also includes interactive kiosks, a digital portrait gallery, and a theater.
* Palace of Kraków Bishops ( 1637 – 1641 ): summer residence of Bishops of Kraków, built in early baroque style by Giovanni Battista Trevano and Tomasz Poncino ; houses a museum with an important gallery of Polish paintings
Crotone hosts a national archaeological museum, a municipal museum, a municipal art gallery, and a provincial museum of contemporary art, as well as the Antiquarium di Torre Nao.

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