Title The public art museum in nineteenth century Britain : the development of the National Gallery / Christopher Whitehead

Published Burlington : Ashgate, [2005] ©2005

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Description xix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Perspectives on collecting Perspectives on collecting. 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 Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject National Gallery (Great Britain) -- History. Art museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Museum techniques -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Art museum architecture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Genre/Form History. Author National Gallery (Great Britain) LC no. 2004004806 ISBN 0754632369 alkaline paper

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