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As the Gare d'Orsay, this building was once the grandest railway station in France. As the Musee d'Orsay, opening next week, it is now the world's best museum of its kind. Its conspectus of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography, representing the last half of the 19th and...
The building in which all this is gathered was for two decades an obsolete pachyderm of tawny limestone occupying as beautiful a site as Paris, or the world, can offer: a stretch of the Left Bank across from the Louvre, with a panoramic view of the Tuileries. Originally, the Cours...
Jean-Philippe Lachenaud, director of architecture for the Ministry of the Environment, was put in charge of the plans. Michel Laclotte, the Louvre's head curator of painting -- and, as such, the key influence in the "Louvre system," which controls the distribution of government-owned works of art throughout France...
Orsay was by far the largest job of Aulenti's career, involving thousands of drawings during six years of almost daily discussion with the museum's staff. Born near Udine into a family she calls "minor intellectual nobility," Aulenti, 59, honed her sense of design during ten years on the...
The big view as one enters is the avenue, plunging down the main axis and flanked on either side by raised terraces clad in squares of soft, tan-gray Burgundian limestone. The avenue is for monumental sculpture (some very monumental indeed, like the huge stone original of Carpeaux's La...