Staff, residents and visitors alike are settling into the new buildings and galleries that have opened at the Ringling Museum in the past several months.(ART buzz)

Sarasota Magazine, March, 2007 by Ormond, Mark

STAFF, RESIDENTS AND VISITORS alike are settling into the new buildings and galleries that have opened at the Ringling Museum in the past several months. Many of the sculptures that John Ringling bought from the Chiurazzi foundry in Naples, Italy, in 1924 have been relocated to the loggia of the museum building. The new Searing Wing is hosting an exquisite show of jewelry from the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore; residents may remember some of the pieces from a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition that came to the museum in the mid-1980s. One of those was the Iris Corsage (shown above), made by Tiffany and purchased by Henry Walters in 1900. It's made from 120 sapphires with bands of platinum-set diamonds, garnets and topaz. Tiffany & Co....

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