Title: Marble palaces, temples of art
First published: 1998
Description: The era from 1890 to 1930 constituted a building boom for American art museums designed in a monumental, classical style; both the proliferation of the buildings and the ubiquity of the style seem to indicate an architectural as well as a sociocultural phenomenon.

The present work is an attempt to place the American art museum building of this period into its historical milieu, and employs over one hundred illustrations and sociocultural analysis to explain the significance of both the institutions and the structures housing them to those who came into regular contact with them, including architects, patrons, journalists, and museum personnel.
Subjects: History, Art museums, Art museum architecture, Architecture, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century
LC classification: NA6695 .S74 1998