Museum Show Tells Story Of Father-son Collection

On Sunday, the museum unveils an installation about this unusual father-son collection called From Rye to Raphael: The show includes works of art, photos and artifacts like a vintage whiskey bottle, along with some of the collection's finest objects, like a Faberge egg with a tiny, perfect model of a Russian palace inside and a volume of Shakespeare's works published in 1623. [...] the Walters didn't like the Impressionist and post-Impressionist works that were coming into fashion in the early 20th century; most of their collection reflects a more classical sensibility, including paintings in the academic style that was popular in Europe in the late 19th century. Admission to the museum is free, and on a recent rainy weekday, its galleries were bustling with visitors looking at permanent displays of everything from a luminous Renaissance painting by Raphael, "Madonna and the Candelabra," to an Egyptian mummy affectionately known around the museum as "Mery."

 

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