The Long and Short of Displaying Art:

Permanent Collections

And

Temporary Exhibitions

© Deborah Feller

April 1, 2017

Figure 1: Line to enter Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition, 1977, Field Museum,

Chicago.

Figure 2: Lehman wing during Manus & Machina

exhibition—old masters paintings in background on left.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo © D. Feller.

Figure 3: Lehman wing during Manus & Machina exhibition—

viewers worshipping fashion. Metropolitan Museum of Art,

New York.

Photo © D. Feller.

Figures 4 and 5: Asian Art galleries during China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition--eclipsing the art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo courtesy of the museum.

Figure 11: Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio,

2016. Title gallery view with The Lute Player on the

right. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by

Corrado Serra for Arts Summary.

Figure 9: Valentin de Boulogne, The Lute

Player, in Painting Music in the Age of

Caravaggio, 2015. Metropolitan Museum of

Art, New York. Photo by Allison Meier for

Hyperallergic.

Figure 6: Valentin de Boulogne,

The Lute Player, ca. 1625-26.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New

York.

Figure 10: Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond

Caravaggio, 2016. Title gallery view with Jusepe

de Ribera's Denial of Saint Peter. Metropolitan

Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Corrado Serra

for Arts Summary.

Figure 7: Caravaggio Gallery. Metropolitan

Museum of Art. Photo © D. Feller.

Figure 8: Poussin Gallery. Metropolitan Museum

of Art. Photo © D. Feller.

Figure 12: Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, Greek and Roman

galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Figure 13: Greek and Roman galleries,

central corridor. Metropolitan Museum

of Art.

Figure 14: View of the Crypt Gallery for Byzantine Art of Egypt, under the

Great Staircase, showing underside of stairs on right. Metropolitan Museum of

Art.

Figure 15: Crypt Gallery for

Byzantine Art of Egypt, under the

Great Staircase. Metropolitan

Museum of Art.

Figure 16: Moroccan craftsman working on

arch for new galleries of Art of the Arab

Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later

South Asia. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Figure 17: Moroccan Court of galleries of Art

of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia,

and Later South Asia. Metropolitan Museum of

Art.

Figure 18: Nineteenth-Century European

Paintings galleries (1979), Metropolitan

Museum of Art.

Figure 19: Nineteenth-Century European

Paintings galleries (1993). Metropolitan

Museum of Art.

Figure 20: Nineteenth-Century European

Sculpture galleries (1993). Metropolitan

Museum of Art.

Figure 21: Nineteenth-Century European Paintings galleries

(2007), Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Figure 22: Publicity photo, Ribera, Maestro del dibujo. Museo

Nacional del Prado. November 22, 2016 – February 19, 2017.Figure 23: Long view into final gallery, Between

Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera.

The Meadows Museum, March 12 - June 11, 2017.

Photo © D. Feller

Figure 24: View of final gallery, Between

Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de

Ribera. The Meadows Museum. Photo © D.

Feller.

Figure 24: Jusepe de Ribera, Apollo and Marsyas (1637, pen and brown ink, 4 x 4f in. [10 x 12.4 cm]). Istituto

Centrale per la Grafica, Rome.

Figure 25: Jusepe de Ribera, Apollo and Marsyas (1637, oil on canvas, 6 x 7b ft. [182 x 232 cm]).

Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples.

Figure 24: Relative in

size to painting.