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6 Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston

The largest art museum in New England and one
of the largest in the United States, its collection
includes around 450,000 items, ranging from Egyptian
artifacts to paintings by John Singer Sargent. The American Silver
original 1909 Beaux Arts-style MFA building was The revolutionary Paul Revere
augmented in 1981 by the addition of the Linde Family (see p23) was also a noted
wing, designed by I.M. Pei. The $500 million Art of silversmith and produced
many beautiful ob jects,
the Americas wing, designed by architect Norman such as this ornate teapot.
Foster, has given new life to the museum housing
53 galleries and displaying over 5,000 works of art.

. Japanese Temple Room
This room was created in
1909 to provide a space in
which to contemplate
Buddhist art. The MFA has
one of the finest Japanese
collections outside Japan.

Fenway
Entrance

. Egyptian Mummies
Among the museum’s
Egyptian and Nubian art
is this tomb group of Calderwood
Nes-mut-aat-neru Courtyard
(767–656 BC) of Thebes.

Shapiro
Courtyard

Huntington
Entrance

. Copley Portraits
John Singleton Copley
(1738–1815) painted the
celebrities of his day, hence
this portrait of a dandyish Lower
John Hancock (see p23). Ground

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