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A richly illustrated guide to the highlights of this world-renowned collection. In 1883 fourteen men and eleven women incorporated the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts to advance the knowledge and love of art. Their dream of establishing a public museum was realized three decades later, when the Minneapolis Institute of Arts opened its doors in 1915, housed in a building designed by McKim, Mead, and White. Since that time, the permanent collection of the museum has grown to one hundred thousand objects and includes representative masterpieces from every continent and age. This beautifully produced handbook, abounding with full-color illustrations, pictures key objects in the Institute's collection and provides basic information about their artists and cultures. Selected Works is organized chronologically by broad historical periods-the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the baroque period, and the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries-and includes sections dev

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 27/09/2001
      ISBN13: 9780912964324, 978-0912964324
      ISBN10: 0912964324
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      Book Synopsis
      A richly illustrated guide to the highlights of this world-renowned collection. In 1883 fourteen men and eleven women incorporated the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts to advance the knowledge and love of art. Their dream of establishing a public museum was realized three decades later, when the Minneapolis Institute of Arts opened its doors in 1915, housed in a building designed by McKim, Mead, and White. Since that time, the permanent collection of the museum has grown to one hundred thousand objects and includes representative masterpieces from every continent and age. This beautifully produced handbook, abounding with full-color illustrations, pictures key objects in the Institute's collection and provides basic information about their artists and cultures. Selected Works is organized chronologically by broad historical periods-the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the baroque period, and the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries-and includes sections dev

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