A Museum Once Forgotten: Rebirth of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Softcover

John Wetenhall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916758540 ISBN 13: 9780916758547

Publisher: Serbin Printing, Inc., 2007

Synopsis

Contents include sections on A Museum Once Forgotten, The Transformation Begins, Expansion for the 21is. Century, Expanding the Vision, Endowment: Financial Foundations for Future Success and Honor Roll: For Those Who Made the Transformation Possible. From Wikipedia:The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the state art museum of Florida, located in Sarasota, Florida.[1] 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.[2] Designated as the official state art museum for Florida,[3] 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.[4] Other famous artists represented include Benjamin West, Marcel Duchamp, Diego Velázquez, Paolo Veronese, Rosa Bonheur, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Giuliano Finelli, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Nicolas Poussin, Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Gainsborough, Eugène Boudin, and Benedetto Pagni. In all, more than 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) have been added to the campus, which includes the art museum, circus museum, and Ca' 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 (2,800 m2) gallery for special exhibitions attached to the art museum.[5]

About this edition

• Publisher: Serbin Printing, Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0916758540
• ISBN 13: 9780916758547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72