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The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition by Francis Haskell
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“museums have never existed when art is in good health and creative vitality flourishes. Museums are no more than cemeteries of art, catacombs in which the remains of what were once living things are arranged in sepulchral promiscuity (...) - Théophile Thoré (1861)”
― Francis Haskell, The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition
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