Urban gallery architecture
Introduction
A gallery is a long room used to connect other areas of the building and to walk through and display works of art.
In all palaces there are generally galleries that serve these purposes as well as accessory rooms to large halls and in these, as in many other cases, they are decorated with great splendor and even luxury furniture is placed in them. The panels covered with silk upholstery, gold and silver embroidery and also covered with tapestries representing characters and original paintings of various sizes.
The word gallery as an exhibition of works of art comes from the collections of paintings belonging to sovereigns, princes and even individuals, which were exhibited in the galleries of their palaces. Among the first to obtain this name are:.
• - The galleries of Florence: Gallery of the Academy of Florence; Uffizi Gallery.
• - The Imperial Belvedere gallery in Vienna.
• - Those of the princes of Liechtenstein and Estherazi.
• - The Dresden gallery.
• - The Saint-Souci gallery.
• - The Schleissheim gallery").
• - The Louvre gallery.
famous galleries
Contenido
Hay muchas galerías célebres tanto por su riqueza como por el mérito de sus pinturas, hechas por hábiles maestros encargados de decorarlas.
In Italy
• - Gallery of the Farnese Palace in Rome. It is one of the smallest in Rome due to its size but is very famous due to the richness of its decoration. In it, there are many mythological subjects painted by the Carracci.
• - Fava Palace Gallery, in Bologna, where you can contemplate the story of Aeneas, painted by the Carraci.
• - Magnani Palace Gallery, also in Bologna, which represents the story of Romulus, painted by the same authors.
• - Gallery of the cloister of San Miguel, in the same city and also painted by the Carraci.
• - Verospi Palace Gallery, in Rome, painted by Francisco Albani") and Sisto Badalocci").