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Paradise Advertising / Marketing
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (February 16, 2007) — The Salvador Dalí Museum, one of the top tourist draws in the Tampa Bay area, will welcome baseball fans this year with a special offer. Spring training visitors will receive half-off of the regular adult admission* when they show a valid ticket or ticket stub for any 2007 Spring Training game in Florida now through Opening Day, April 1.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary in downtown St. Petersburg, the Salvador Dalí Museum is the top-rated museum in the Southeast. With 95 oil paintings and over 2,140 total works, the Dalí Museum houses the most important collection of the artist’s works outside of his native Spain. Highly respected within the art world, the Dalí Museum is extremely accessible to visitors who have never visited an art museum before, with the aid of interactive family guides and up to six guided tours daily.
The Dalí Museum is currently presenting Dalí and the Spanish Baroque, an exhibition showcasing paintings by legendary seventeenth century masters of Spanish Court painting alongside a large and revealing selection of works by Salvador Dalí. The exhibition illustrates the profound influence the Spanish Baroque period and artists such as Diego de Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, El Greco, Bartolomé Murillo and Juan Sánchez Cotán had on Dalí, and by extension, on the history of modern art.
Dalí’s fascination with the Baroque predated Surrealism and manifested itself throughout his career. From the realism of his early work to the preoccupation with saints and religious themes down to his flamboyant mustache (patterned after Velázquez’s court portraits of Philip IV), Dalí incorporated Baroque characteristics into his work and life.
The Salvador Dalí Museum is located at 1000 Third Street
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