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As you may know from my resent travel thread, I've been immersed in the art and architecture of that time for the last month. And like Craigster am blown away by their control of the material, the flowing robes, the ability to make the skin conform to the shape of muscles underneath. The subtle design details in huge buildings truly amazing. And realizing they were able to achieve all this with out power tool or carbon tipped cutting tool, mind boggling, big respect!

Re the Getty, the villa there as they contrast to the monument up in the hills illustrate a point that has come into focus for me. the setting is important to the enjoyment of the art being viewed. some of the modern monumental structures created as museums both art and auto, can get in the way of what they are created to display. Some things are better seen in a space that is human scaled.
In some of the older car museums the detailed period setting created to display cars of a certain era added to the enjoyment for me. Some of the Reno museum and the old Mercedes Museum are cases in mind. Anyone have thoughts on the matter?

Cheers Richard