点评:In the Palm Beach and West Palm Beach region, the name of Norton is as conspicuous as Flagler, Post, Phipps, Wanamaker, Vanderbilt and Trump. Located at 1450 South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Norton Museum of Art features a collection of over 8,200 works with a concentration in 20th century European and American art, Chinese export porcelain as well as contemporary art and photography. In 2003, it overtook the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota to become the largest art museum in Florida. Founded in 1941 by Ralph Hubbard Norton, former head of the Chicago-based Acme Steel Company, the four-story, 122,500-square-foot, Art Deco/Neoclassical building includes a 50,000-square-feet of gallery space, 43-foot-high Great Hall, a 9,000-square-foot sculpture garden, a 210-seat auditorium, a restaurant, a Chihuly glass ceiling, an education center and classrooms. Open from 10 to 5 on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 to 10 on Friday and 11 to 5 on Sunday, visitors can view noteworthy paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough,Giovanni Panini, Jacopo Da Firenze, Jan Thomas Yperen and Lucas Cranach the Elder.
翻译:在棕榈滩及西棕榈滩地区,诺顿这个名字的知名度丝毫不逊于弗拉格勒、波斯特、菲普斯、华纳梅克、范德比尔特和特朗普。诺顿艺术博物馆坐落于佛罗里达州西棕榈滩的南迪克西公路1450号,馆内收藏了超过8,200件艺术品,其中以20世纪的欧美艺术、中国外销瓷器以及当代艺术与摄影作品为主。2003年,它已超越位于萨拉索塔的约翰与梅布尔·林林艺术博物馆,成为佛罗里达州最大的艺术博物馆。该博物馆由原芝加哥阿克米钢铁公司总裁拉尔夫·哈伯德·诺顿于1941年创办,是一座四层楼高、面积达122,500平方英尺的建筑,融合了装饰艺术与新古典主义风格。馆内设有50,000平方英尺的展览空间、一个挑高43英尺的中央大厅、一片面积达9,000平方英尺的雕塑花园、一座可容纳210人的礼堂、一家餐厅、装有奇胡利玻璃天花板的展厅,以及教育中心和多个教室。开放时间:周一、周三、周四和周六为10点至17点,周五为10点至22点,周日为11点至17点。游客在此可以观赏到彼得·保罗·鲁本斯、安东尼·凡·戴克、乔舒亚·雷诺兹、托马斯·盖恩斯伯勒、乔瓦尼·帕尼尼、雅科波·达·菲伦泽、扬·托马斯·伊佩伦以及老卢卡斯·克拉纳赫等人的杰出画作。