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Annual report of the Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago
Annual report of the Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago Author:Art Institute of Chicago Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES. Chicago, June 6, 1895. To the Director and Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago: On assuming, at the b... more »eginning of January of this year, the duties of Curator of Classical Antiquities, I addressed myself first to the re-arrangement of the Greek and Etruscan vases. Whereas specimens representing different periods and different places of production had been indiscrimately combined in the same cases, it seemed better, because more instructive, to introduce, as far as the limited space at disposal would allow, a chronological and local order. That has been done, to the advantage of the historical student, and without loss, it is believed, to the aesthetic effectiveness of the display. Furthermore, I have corrected a few labels belonging to plaster casts and to miscellaneous minor objects, and have rendered some assistance in the installation of the newly acquired casts of sculptures from the pediments of the temple of Athena on the Island of JRg'ma. Permit me to suggest certain things which need to be done in the department of Classical Antiquities. In the first place, the collection of casts, widely representative and admirably chosen as it is, still lacks a number of pieces of first-rate importance. I may suggest, as especially desirable, the so- called Iris of the Parthenon, the best of the Parthenon metopes (the collection at present possesses only two, one of which isReport of- the Curator of Classical Antiquities. ji of secondary interest), the Lemnian Athena of Phidias (recently identified by Prof. .Furtwangler), the Velletri Athena, the Louvre torso of a Praxitelean Satyr (Hawthorne's " Marble Faun"), and some additional slabs of the great frieze from the altar at Pergamon. A great deal can also be done, and at ve...« less