Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Whitehead, Christopher

Title The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain : the Development of the National Gallery
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005

Copies

Description 1 online resource (291 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-264) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject National Gallery (Great Britain) -- History
SUBJECT National Gallery (Great Britain) fast
London / Nationalgalerie. swd
Subject 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
Art -- Museums -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- History -- 19th century
Art -- Collectors and collecting
Art museum architecture
Art museums
Museum techniques
Kulturarbeit
Öffentliche Einrichtung
Museumspädagogik
Kunstmuseum
National Gallery (Londen)
Great Britain
Großbritannien
London
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351883436
1351883437