New Mexico Museum Of Art Wikipedia

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But the frisson, or the thrill, one experiences before a work of art in all its physicality and materiality is one thing that new media can solely imitate however never exceed. And Richard M. Ross Building, was designed within the Second Renaissance Revival style by Columbus architects Richards, McCarty and Bulford. It has a concrete foundation, partitions of limestone and concrete, and a truncated copper hipped roof. The building is horizontal, two tales Museum of Art excessive, and has a central structure advanced a quantity of ft in front of its two wings. The wings characteristic massive limestone friezes, collectively known as The Frederick W. Schumacher Frieze or Masters of Art. The work, by Robert Ingersoll Aitken and named after Frederick W. Schumacher, depicts sixty eight artists from 490 B.C.

Museum of Art