Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts
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In 1905, the design of the Palace of Fine Arts was entrusted to the Chilean-French architect Émile Jéquier, who was inspired by the internal route and the facade of the Petit Palais in Paris. Its neoclassical style also includes ornaments characteristic of the Art Nouveau prevailing at the time. The high relief of the pediment of the Museum, work executed by the Chilean sculptor Guillermo Cordova, represents an allegory to the Fine Arts. The subject was proposed by Jéquier himself and had to be made in white stone or cast cement. Among the ornaments of the exterior frieze of the museum building are twenty-two ceramic mosaic medallions representing great architects, sculptors and painters of universal art, among them Phidias, Praxiteles, Bramante,