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Glyptothek (glüp'tōtāk`), museum in Munich on the Königsplatz, founded by Louis I of Bavaria to house his collection of ancient and modern sculptures. Among these is the famous Barberini faun (c.200 B.C.). The neoclassical building, designed by Leo von Klenze, was constructed between 1816 and 1830. Its severe, imposing Ionic portico projects from a wall containing six large sculptures in niches. The interior is structured with domical vaulting. |
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Or, looking at galleries, think of the differences between the elegant and sensuously austere (though firmly disciplinarian) early nineteenth-century Neo-Classical Glyptothek by von Klenze in Munich and Louis Kahn's luminous and fluid Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. They completed one side of Konigsplatz, an axially placed square in which von Klenze's Glyptothek (perhaps the best Neo-Classical building in Munich) also stands. |
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