Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Altes Museum
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Altes Museum
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Alternate Title:
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Königliches Museum
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Image View:
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Detail, back facade of building with simple brick and stone stringcourses
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Creator:
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German architect, 1781-1841)
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Location:
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site: Altes Museum (Berlin, Berlin (state), Germany)
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Location Note:
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Am Lustgarten, Museum Island
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GPS:
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+52.519444+13.398333
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Date:
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1823-1830 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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German
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Style Period:
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Neoclassical; Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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art museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone; marble; fresco; brick
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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87 m (length, facade)
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Inscription:
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FRIDERICVS GVILHELMVS III. STVDIO ANTIQVITATIS OMNIGENAE ET ARTIVM LIBERALIVM MVSEVM CONSTITVIT MDCCCXXVIII [Friedrich Wilhelm III founded this museum for the study of all forms of antiquities and of the liberal arts 1828]
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Description:
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The main front facing on the Lustgarten is a v of 18 Ionic columns in antis, 83.7 m in length and 19.4 m from the ground to the top of the cornice. It evoked the Stoa Poikile in Athens; the windowless inner wall of the portico had murals painted by Schinkel depicting an idealized history of civilization (destroyed in World War II). The attic protecting the masonry dome of the central rotunda is cubic in form, giving the Museum a simple dominating silhouette and avoiding competition with the nearby cathedral cupola. Until 1845, it was called the Königliches Museum (Royal Museum) and housed the Prussian royal family's art collection. The interior was destroyed in 1945. Since restoration work in 1966, it houses the Antikensammlung (antique collection) of the Berlin State Museums. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Image Description:
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Only the main colonnaded facade uses the Ionic order; the other three walls are of brick and stone banding.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Seven
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Identifier:
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1A1-SKF-AM-A43
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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