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Visiting the Museum: Pick up a floor plan as you enter to help navigate
the confusing layout. For a chronological swing, start with Egypt (mummy
coffins and sarcophagi, a 5,000-year-old hippo statue), Greece (red-and-black
painted vases, statues), the Etruscan world (Greek-looking vases), and Rome
(grittily realistic statues and portrait busts). The sober realism of 19th-century
Danish Golden Age painting reflects the introspection of a once-powerful na-
tion reduced to second-class status—and ultimately embracing what made
them unique. The “French Wing” (just inside the front door) has Rodin
statues. A heady, if small, exhibit of 19th-century French paintings (in a mod-
ern building within the back courtyard) shows how Realism morphed into
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and includes a couple of canvases
apiece by Géricault, Delacroix, Monet, Manet, Millet, Courbet, Degas, Pis-
sarro, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Look for
art by Gauguin—from before Tahiti (when he lived in Copenhagen with his
Danish wife and their five children) and after Tahiti. There's also a fine col-
lection of modern (post-Thorvaldsen) Danish sculpture.
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