Gallery
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The entrance to the Basilica Cistern
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Another view of the forest of columns
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Column with Medusa base
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Another column with Medusa base
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"Peacock-eyed" column
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Carp in the Cistern
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The Cistern Cafe
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The ceiling of the Basilica Cistern reflected in the still waters
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Art exhibit in the Cistern, 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)