Parthenon Gallery, British Museum
Pope, John Russell
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Date
1929-1939Description
Detail of the main entry to the gallery, showing the bracketed top; Many of his contemporaries considered Pope the best academic classicist of his generation. Pope established a reputation for excellent designs for public monuments in the neo-classical style. His repertory of austere forms in such monuments was the reason he was chosen by Joseph Duveen to design galleries for the British Museum and the Tate Gallery (1929-1939), London. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/15/2009)
Type of Work
gallery (display space)Subject
interior design, Museology, museum gallery design, Twentieth century, Neoclassical
Rights
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