Columbia
Museum of Art
The Columbia Museum of Art that is housed in
Columbia, South Carolina contains a collection of outstanding
European and American fine and decorative artworks that date
several centuries back, and resides in a museum structure that
was converted from an urban department store into a space filled
with light and 25 galleries. The museum has a marvelous baroque
and renaissance collection that had been a gift from the Samuel
Kress Foundation that showcases old master paintings with quite
a few being commissioned by churches in Italy during the 15th
and 16th centuries. There are nativity scenes, scenes from the
old and new testaments of the Bible, Madonna and child paintings
and much more to keep you enthralled for hours on end. The
museum houses a magnificent big and rare nativity fresco that
had been transferred to canvas by Sandro Botticelli, one of the
most significant Florentine renaissance artists of his time.
Other outstanding artists' works housed in the permanent
collection include Claude Monet's The Seine at Giverny, and art
glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany, with the total works of
decorative holdings about 3000 that span the 17th to the 20th
centuries. In the Turner Collection there are numerous Asian
objects that date back to the T'ang Dynasty, and include silver,
Chinese export porcelain, sculpture, contemporary art glass,
textiles and American furniture.
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