Long gallery

A gallery ( galleria of Italian or a Galileo Old French for " long colonnade " ) referred to in the architecture in the broadest sense, a space that is longer than it is wide, and at least one of its two longitudinal sides has numerous openings for light. Presumably the word of the medieval galilea goes back, the designated a porch in a church.

In a narrower definition of the term refers to a gallery located in an upstairs walkway, which is open at one of its long sides to a larger compartment. This can for example be realized over a balcony-like structure or by means of arcades. From the similar meaning gallery, the gallery this definition differs in that it can also be opened to an outside space.

History

First developed at galleries Romanesque churches as a narrow, open to one side walkways with arcades. If they are attached to the outside of a building, it is called dwarf galleries that mostly serve to structure the facade. The transition is, however, inside the church, it is called with triforium.

Served - mostly for parties and receptions - For these transitions, an elongated area within the cubic volume of a building, the premises for the development of several developed during the Renaissance. Each tethered to such a gallery space could be entered without it had to be crossed only other adjacent rooms. The first galleries of this kind were made in the form of arcades in the late 15th and early 16th century French castles. Examples are the gallery of Louis XII. in the castle of Blois and the gallery of the castle of Fougères -sur- Bièvre. Because they are open on one side, they are also called open galleries. During the 16th century, closed galleries developed in France from it. It is long, hall-like vestibules, the longitudinal sides had many large, glazed windows and therefore were especially bright. They formed instead of the knight and banquet halls of medieval castles. The motive of self-representation, the claims and philosophical ideas of the client determined their iconographic programs. An example where this becomes clear, the 60 meter long gallery of Francis I. is in the castle Fontainebleau.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the gallery was transformed during the Baroque to a palatial banquet hall, which was often located upstairs. The world's most well-known example is the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. The results from the long rows of windows of the rooms brightness invited to them in works of art on and issue. From this room use the modern term results gallery for art and painting collections.

Open gallery ( portico ) in the wing of Louis XII. , Blois Castle, 16th century

The Gallery of Francis I in the castle Fontainebleau, first half of 16th century, closed-end gallery;

Gallery in the sense of increased running gear in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, 19th century

Other examples of well-known art galleries can be found in the Florentine Uffizi and the Louvre in Paris. The Antiquarium in the Munich Residenz from the years 1568-1571 is one of the first examples of a gallery in Germany.