Art gallery biography

Place where art is exhibited and sometimes also sold

An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.

Art gallery biography

In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s.^[1] The long gallery in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses served many purposes including the display of art.

Historically, art is displayed as evidence of status and wealth, and for religious art as objects of ritual or the depiction of narratives. The first galleries were in the palaces of the aristocracy, or in churches. As art collections grew, buildings became dedicated to art, becoming the first art museums.

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Among the modern reasons art may be displayed are aesthetic enjoyment, education, historic preservation, or for marketing purposes. The term is used to refer to establishments with distinct social and economic functions, both public and private.

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