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Reviewed on March 15, 1996
Established by an act of parliament in 1824, Britain's National Gallery was the first great public art museum created without a royal family's help, England's Royal Collections having never been nationalized. This unwieldy book bills itself quite correctly as a "complete" catalog: perhaps the world's most spectacular gathering of Western paintings is arranged alphabetically by artist, numbering over 2200 p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More