Everything was relegated to the beauty of the pocket watch, contemporary sculpture and centuries-old mechanics.
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At the national academies of art that began to be established throughout western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, students were trained to scrutinize posed models through the filter of antique sculpture and such approved old masters as Raphael.
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Mr. Rush said that the campus's now-closed Kresge museum will move its collection, including 7, 000 objects of Greek and Roman antiquities, Old Master paintings and 20th-century sculpture, into the new space.
It may not be surprising, then, that the world's largest angel sculpture is only a decade old and stands, not in some cathedral, but at the head of the Team valley overlooking Gateshead, in the postindustrial north of England.
For the exterior Pinault commissioned a light sculpture by 39-year-old Danish artist Olafur Eliasson.
Every Play-Doh sculpture my 2-year-old creates must be documented for posterity.
The early treasures would be better seen in the old building near the superb collection of early Chinese sculpture of much the same period.
Angelica Hoyos, a 26-year-old living in Los Angeles, has put her photography and sculpture career on hold since her parents pulled the financial plug earlier this year after the family's granite-countertop business suffered.
Pinault owns 2, 000-plus pieces by upward of 80 artists, from Picasso and Mondrian to new talents, like the 33-year-old Swiss-born Urs Fischer, whose flame-color raindrops sculpture cascades over the Palazzo Grassi's central staircase.
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There is a massive, wraparound glass staircase, and dropping down from the 24-foot-tall ceiling is a 12-foot-long "found art" light sculpture made by a local artist with steel rods and old trumpets, toy train tracks and parts of old pistons.
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