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  2. Barnes Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture. Originally in Merion, the art collection moved in 2012 to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The arboretum of the Barnes Foundation remains in Merion, where it has been proposed that ...

  3. Diana (Saint-Gaudens) - Wikipedia

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    Location. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Diana – also known as Diana of the Tower – is an iconic statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, representing the goddess Diana. Once a major artistic feature of New York City, the second version stood atop the tower of Madison Square Garden from 1893 to 1925.

  4. List of museums in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

  5. Philadelphia Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. [ 1 ] The main museum building was completed in 1928 [ 8 ] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. [ 2 ] The museum administers collections containing over ...

  6. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - Wikipedia

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    PAFA's 1845 building from a photograph, c. 1870. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. [5] Its first building on Chestnut and 10th Streets in Center City Philadelphia was designed by John Dorsey and opened in ...

  7. Rocky Steps - Wikipedia

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    Rocky Steps. Coordinates: 39°57′54″N 75°10′49″W. Video of Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa running up the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia in Rocky in 1976; the iconic scene gave birth to the steps' notoriety and popularity. The front entrance and steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

  8. Centennial Exposition - Wikipedia

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    The unbuilt Centennial Tower, a 1,000-foot-tall (300 m) tower conceived in 1874 by engineers Clarke and Reeves. The formal name of the exposition was the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, but the official theme was the celebration of the United States centennial.

  9. A Reading from Homer - Wikipedia

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    Location. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. A Reading from Homer (sometimes Listening to Homer) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1885 by the English artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It depicts an imaginary festival scene from ancient Greece with youth reading poetry to a small audience on a marble balcony overlooking the sea.

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