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Studies for The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien (Lictors, Stone Thrower, and Spectator)

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Description: Studies for The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien (Lictors, Stone Thrower, and...

TitleStudies for The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien (Lictors, Stone Thrower, and Spectator)

Creator nameIngres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1833

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil over graphite, squared in graphite, on canvas with irregular edges, backed by canvas, backed by an aluminum panel

LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

https://hvrd.art/o/221570

Accession number1943.246

SubjectsPainting, French--19th centuryArtists' preparatory studiesMartyrdom in artNeoclassicism (Art)--France

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The Object of Art Museums

Description: Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust

Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust

WE HAVE ALL heard stories of people going to museums in the days following September 11, just to be there, quietly, safe in the company of things that are beautiful and impossibly fragile, yet that have lasted for centuries through war and tumult to lay claim still on our imaginations. I was reminded of Neil MacGregor’s story of London’s National Gallery during the Blitz....

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PublisherPrinceton University Press

Copyright© 2004 Princeton University Press and President and Fellows of Harvard College

Related print edition pages: pp.49-75

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100027&redirecttoanchor=200325

Chapter subject tags:Art museums--PhilosophyArt museums--Public opinionArt museums--Collection managementMuseum studiesArt museum visitorsHarvard University. Art MuseumsMuseum ethicsArt museums--History

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