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The Vanishing Sculptures

Presenter(s): 
Terence Lane
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Aug 2012 - 8:00pm
Finish: 
Wednesday, 15 August 2012 - 10:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

A visitor walking through the Fitzroy Gardens in the nineteenth century would have found their lush plantings highlighted with statues in the classical and neo-classical style.  Now these have disappeared.  Why?  What happened to them?  Terence Lane, former Senior Curator, Australian Art, NGV, and author of several books on the Australian decorative arts, will give us the answers, some of them surprising.

 

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