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

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- General Preface to the Series -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Development of a Public Museology -- 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 -- Part II: The National Gallery 1850-1876 -- 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 -- Appendix: National Gallery Reconstitution, 1855 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines the momentous debate about the form and functions of the public art museum in nineteenth-century Britain. It discusses the development of the London museums between 1850 and 1880, including analysis of art display and its relations with art historiography, alongside institutional and architectural developments at the British Museum, the South Kensington Museum and the National Gallery.

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