Elegant Archway
by Terry Davis
Title
Elegant Archway
Artist
Terry Davis
Medium
Digital Art - Photo Painting
Description
This is one of the many archways in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in the state art museum of Florida, located in Sarasota, Florida. It was established in 1927 as the legacy of Mable and John Ringling for the people of Florida. Florida State University assumed governance of the Museum in 2000. I was able to visit and spent an entire day here in 2015. It is so worth a visit!
Designated as the official state art museum for Florida, the institution offers twenty-one galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art. The museum's art collection currently consists of more than 10,000 objects that include a variety of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods and from around the world. The most celebrated items in the museum are 16th-20th century European paintings, including a world-renowned collection of Peter Paul Rubens paintings. Other famous artists represented include Benjamin West, Marcel Duchamp, Diego Velazquez, Paolo Veronese, Rosa Bonheur, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Giuliano Finelli, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Nicolas Poussin, Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Gainsborough, Eugene Boudin, and Benedetto Pagni.
In all, more than 150,000 square feet have been added to the campus, which includes the art museum, circus museum, and C d'Zan, the Ringlings' mansion, which has been restored, along with the historic Asolo Theater. New additions to the campus include the Visitor's Pavilion, the Education, Library, and Conservation Complex, the Tibbals Learning Center complete with a miniature circus, and the Searing Wing, a 30,000-square-foot gallery for special exhibitions attached to the art museum.
IMAGE FEATURED IN:
The ABC group 09/25/16
The Philanthropic Artists group 09/11/16
The Road to Self Promotion group 09/06/16
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September 4th, 2016
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