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# Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden statue of Diana on the grand staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art proves that a real longing for beauty, not without a touch of the transcendent, can exist even in a country of such vulgar and ostentatious materialis
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/zolotaia-statuia-diany-ogiusta-sen-godensa-na-paradnoi-lestnitse-khudozhestvennogo-muzeia-filadelfii-dokazyvaet-chto-nastoiashchaia-ne-lishennaia-transtsendentnosti-tiaga-k-krasote-mozh/
- Published: 2024-07-25T06:32:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Museums, Observations, New York

*This sculpture of the 1890s previously stood atop Madison Square Garden in New York*

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