Gallery_design Dulwich_Picture_Gallery

audio description of gallery christoph vogtherr

dulwich picture gallery s design , architecture comprising series of interlinked rooms lit natural light through overhead skylights has been primary influence on art gallery design ever since. soane designed sky lights illuminate paintings indirectly. soane s design particularly significant in art gallery construction because of unrelated traditional architectural practices or schools of architecture. instead of constructing facade stucco porticos favoured many contemporary architects, opted use uninterrupted raw brick, feature has subsequently been adopted many 20th-century art galleries. architect philip johnson [1906–2005] said of space soane has taught how display paintings .

before soane settled on final design, proposed number of other ideas around quadrangle belonging alleyn s charitable foundation south of college buildings. schemes proved ambitious , gallery built, conceived 1 wing of quadrangle. mausoleum soane s idea, bourgeois had merely indicated desire buried in college chapel. soane recalled bourgeois desire construct mausoleum in desenfan s home , design axiomatic of charlotte street house. bourgeois , desenfans, along desenfans wife, died in 1815, buried in gallery s mausoleum. alms houses constructed soane along west side of gallery converted exhibition space charles barry, jr. in 1880 , eastward extension built designs e s hall between 1908 , 1938.

on 12 july 1944, during world war ii, mausoleum , west wing galleries badly damaged german v1 flying bomb , bones scattered across lawn in front of gallery. 3 sarcophagi in mausoleum contain approximately skeleton each. buildings refurbished austin vernon , partners , re-opened queen mother on 27 april 1953.

a modernist cafe, education rooms, disabled access , lecture theatre rick mather added in 1999. @ same time parts of soane s original design restored , latest refurbishment opened queen elizabeth ii on 25 may 2000.