Further into the entrance gallery, prints and ephemera illustrate society's response to its newborn dandies: mockery and moralizing.

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Those mindful of a world beyond the self-enclosing barricades of government, though, may take a moment to notice a banner hanging over the entrance to the West Wing of the National Gallery of Art.

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The company, based in the Paris suburbs, was responsible for building the gallery's infamous entrance -- the Louvre pyramid -- in 1989.

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The least commercial and most intellectually challenging pieces in the show are not in the main gallery but in two vitrines at its entrance.

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Visitors will approach Rembrandt's painting through the cathedral-like entrance hall, filled with jewel-toned stained glass and extravagant wall decorations, and the restored Gallery of Honor, home to the Rijksmuseum's collection of 17th century works.

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The hotel project would see the renovation of the hall's main entrance, stables, courtyard and sculpture gallery.

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