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24 de abr. de 2024 · Por ejemplo, se añadieron esculturas griegas y el rey Jorge IV donó la biblioteca de su padre. Por lo tanto, en 1823 se empezó la construcción del edificio actual del Museo Británico en Great Russell Street. Esta imponente estructura neoclásica fue diseñada por el arquitecto sir Robert Smirke.
Hace 2 días · The museum’s present building, designed in the Greek Revival style by Sir Robert Smirke, was built on the site of Montagu House in the period 1823–52 and has been the subject of several subsequent additions and alterations.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 1 día · In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854–1857; at 140 feet (43 m) in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.
9 de may. de 2024 · The job will be the museum’s biggest building project since the 1820s when work began on Robert Smirke’s original Greek Revival-style quadrangle. The 100,000m² museum has around 3,500 different rooms and features more than eight million items in its permanent collection.
Hace 6 días · The British Museum is one of the oldest and finest museums in the world. Housing over 8,000,000 objects and artifacts, this was the first museum ever to cover all areas of human knowledge. It was founded in 1753 and designed by the Architect Sir Robert Smirke in the Greek revival style.
Hace 1 día · The British Museum, a venerable institution in the cultural landscape of London, is embarking on a significant transformation of its Bloomsbury site. As part of an ambitious master plan, the museum has launched a competition to redesign approximately 7,500 sq. metres of its gallery space, accounting for about a third of its total gallery area.
Hace 4 días · The architect was Sir Robert Smirke, and the model selected, the Temple of Minerva in the Acropolis at Athens. The Doric portico in Bow Street, with its four fluted columns, and statues of Tragedy and Comedy, were by Flaxman, and the two long panels in the upper part, with representations in basso-relievo of ancient and modern drama ...
