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The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain : the Development of the National Gallery.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitehead, Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005.
Series:Perspectives on collecting.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Historiography, connoisseurship and museum space
  • 2. Interior decoration and historicism in the art museum
  • 3. Museum architecture and moral improvement
  • 4. Typology in the London museums and their collections
  • 5. Museums and their builders in nineteenth century Britain
  • 6. Debating the national gallery
  • 7. Refiguring the national gallery
  • 8. Negotiating the construction of the national gallery
  • 9. The development of the Barry rooms
  • 10. The enlarged national gallery in 1876
  • App. National gallery reconstitution, 1855.