Dayton Art Institute

The Dayton Art Institute (DAI ) is an art museum in Dayton, Ohio, in the United States of America. It is well known for its collection of Italian Renaissance art, but today shows in permanent and temporary exhibitions, a wide range of objects of art and civilization of the past 5000 years. It is counted among the leading museums in the United States. In 2007, more than 300,000 visitors the museum.

History and Building

The Dayton Art Institute emerged from the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts founded in 1919. This was located in a building in downtown Dayton and could then move in 1930 to the newly built Edward B. Green building. As models for the design of the building a small inhabitable summer house are two buildings of the Italian Renaissance, the casino, in the gardens of the Villa Farnese in Caprarola, the ascent to the Museum is modeled on the stairs of the Villa d' Este in Tivoli near Rome. The museum was renamed the Dayton Art Institute, to highlight the growing importance of the museum its affiliated training institutions.

The building of the Dayton Art Institute is on the National Register of Historic Places, a list of architecturally important buildings in the United States.

Museum management

Since January 2008, Janice Dries Bach is the director of the Dayton Art Institute.

Famous Works

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