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Getty Presents Display and Art History: The Dusseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue |
| June 1st, 2011 01:35:16 am |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Display and Art History: The Dsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue illustrates the making of one of the earliest modern catalogues, La galerie lectorale de Dusseldorff (1778), a revolutionary two-volume publication that played a significant role in the history of museums and helped mark the transition from the Baroque to the Enlightenment. Constructed by Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm II von der Pfalz between 1709 and 1714, the Dsseldorf gallery is an early example of exhibiting an art collection in a nonresidential structure. It charted the course toward what would eventually become the institution of the public museum. The Dsseldorf gallery featured a new system of display in which the arrangement of objects was determined by art historical principles such as style and |
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