Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . Myron. 34 THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND OTHER COLLECTIONS. 35 very general way the scope of the collections. The pictures andother objects are numbered, and many of them are inscribed, butto enjoy the collection thoroughly visitors should purchase thecatalogues which are sold in the entrance hall. The first floor is devoted to the collection of casts, and theseare arranged in very nearly chronological order. There areabout eight hundred of these casts, illustrating the history ofart from 4,000 years B. C, through Egyptian, Assy
Pictorial guide to Boston and the country around .. . Myron. 34 THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AND OTHER COLLECTIONS. 35 very general way the scope of the collections. The pictures andother objects are numbered, and many of them are inscribed, butto enjoy the collection thoroughly visitors should purchase thecatalogues which are sold in the entrance hall. The first floor is devoted to the collection of casts, and theseare arranged in very nearly chronological order. There areabout eight hundred of these casts, illustrating the history ofart from 4,000 years B. C, through Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian,Greek, Roman, Mediaeval and Renaissance periods. The floorplans accompanying this article will enable the visitor to locatedifferent groups and collections, and in passing from room toroom he may choose the route which will unfold to him the vari-ous phases of the development and decline of classical sculpture. The tour of the first floor should begin at the right side of theentrance hall and continue through the rooms devoted to Egyp-. IN THE COKRiUOR. 36 GUIDE TO BOSTON. tian and Assyrian sculpture, tlie first, second and third Greekrooms, the room of Egyptian Antiquities to the left of the thirdGreek room, the room devoted to busts and small bronzes (Greekand Roman), to the Parthenon room. The dififerent Greek roomsshow the course of Greek sculpture from its crude beginningsthrough every period of growth, until, in the Parthenon room,may be studied the highest development of that art. In theParthenon Room No. 422 is a model of the Akropolis, in its pres-ent condition, which shows not only the principal monuments,but all the foundations of other buildings brought to light duringthe recent investigations, and also the grottoes and other fea-tures of the rock outside the walls. The principal buildings areindicated by inscriptions. After studying this plan of the Akro-polis one is betterpreparedto study the fragments of the gloriousTemple of Athena and the model of
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