National Gallery of Art, West Building

National Gallery of Art, West Building

Year

1941

Architect

Type

building

Pope's last major commission deployed 47,000 tons of Tennessee pink marble in a 785-foot-long facade (the longest neoclassical facade in the Western Hemisphere) to house Andrew Mellon's art collection. The central rotunda, modeled on the Pa …

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