Sum of the Arts
Number of sculptures the Rodin Museum in Paris is allowed to cast from each original Rodin mold = 12
Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
- Year the first giraffe arrived in Great Britain, after which it was illustrated by naturalists and artists like Jacques-Laurent Agasse and inspired a rapid “giraffemania” = 1827
- Number of sculptures the Rodin Museum in Paris is allowed to cast from each original Rodin mold = 12
- Number of structures that make up the American Museum of Natural History, which revealed the design for its new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation this week = 25
- Length in inches of a 1,200-year-old Viking sword found by a hiker in the Norwegian mountains = 30
- Number of hours Giorgio Vasari’s “Last Supper” (1546), finally nearing restoration, was underwater in the 1966 Florence flood = 48
- Number of euros a day tossed into Rome’s Trevi Fountain before its restoration, which was completed this month with the addition of a basin just for coins = 2,000-3,000
- Number of artworks in the collection of Boston Children’s Hospital, one of a number of hospitals building collections through donations = 5,000
- Number of words in a judgment determining that a skull — believed by some to be Shakespeare’s — would not be DNA tested = 7,000
- Number of miniature items, including a polar bear skin rug and tiny 19th-century books, that fill the Astolat Dollhouse Castle, known as the world’s priciest dollhouse and going on view in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle = 10,000
- Amount (in $US) the Phillips, Sotheby’s, and Christie’s auction houses in New York hope to make in two November weeks = 2,000,000,000
