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Palace of Fine Arts This bit of Neo-Classical fluff was designed by Bernard Maybeck for the Pan-Pacific Exposition of 1915. It is patterned on an 18thcentury engraving by Giovanni Piranesi entitled The Isle of the Dead (see p94).

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