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-Copernicus-
2081
It's ablative. Latin prepositions use either accusative or ablative, not dative.
In the case of "in," which can take either, you use ablative if the object is a location ("inside/within something") and accusative if it's a destination ("into something"). The building is just a location-- the pictures aren't going from outside to inside of it-- so we use ablative.
IrmgardBre2
485
Do american pupils really learn such a pronounciation? ae should be pronounced like the German ä as you hear in Jack ,bag, not like I,as in light.
dxrsam
116
well, ä is probably the correct pronunciation in Classical Latin, but it must have been a diphthong in an earlier stage of the language, which is why is written with two letters