{"id":40676,"date":"2017-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art50art.gurudesk.dev\/boston-guzel-sanatlar-muzesi-2\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:56:01","slug":"boston-guzel-sanatlar-muzesi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/boston-guzel-sanatlar-muzesi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) opened its doors to the public on July, 4, 1876. Since then, it has become one of\u00a0 the largest and iconic art museums in the world. It houses a rich collection that encompasses more than 500.000 artworks of all kinds and types.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of rapid growth in museum collections and in number of visitors, the museum moved to its current site on the Huntington Avenue in 1909. Through time, it has gone through more extensive restoration and extension projects in hopes to answer changing visitor needs and house its ever-growing collections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5607372695_eef025a1ca_b.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6263\" src=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/5607372695_eef025a1ca_b.jpg\" alt=\"5607372695_eef025a1ca_b\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first project was the opening of the new \u2018\u2019The Arts of the Americas Wing\u2019\u2019, which today features best examples of American art in a 4-floor building. Second project was the transformation of the West Wing into the \u2018\u2019Linde Family Wing\u2019\u2019 to explore contemporary art and represent the most influential artists of our time. Last but not least, new galleries for European, Asian and African art were opened in 2013, to reflect artistic heritage and richness of these geographies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1319-1024x682-1024x682.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/art50.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/img_1319-1024x682-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"img_1319-1024x682\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Asia to Africa, contemporary art to photography, textiles to drawings, the MFA explores the art in great depth. It \u00a0holds the most complete John Singer Sargent collection, which is also considered as one of the most distinguishing feautures of the museum. At the Sargent Room located in the new wing of the Museum, visitors find a speical chance to meet with the 19th century\u2019s most influential artist, and explore his life, creativity and works through his 25 oil paintings, water colours, drawings and sculptures.\u00a0 Here, they also find a chance to see one of the treasures of the Museum and European Art History, Sargent\u2019s scandalious and wonderful painting \u2018Madame X\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its rich collection, the Museum also celebrates the artist with the Sargent Archive. Both accessible at the MFA and online, this archive provides visitors and researchers a special collection of records, and includes letters from Sargent to several correspondants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) opened its doors to the public on July, 4, 1876. Since then, it has become one of\u00a0 the largest and iconic art museums in the world. It houses a rich collection that encompasses more than 500.000 artworks of all kinds and types. 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