art gallery

 

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15.400 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available. Guided tours, free postcard and other services are provided for the visitors.

 

The National Gallery, London houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free.

 

If you are here to Learn about M.C. Escher we suggest that you use the links at the top of the page.

If you are here to Shop for products we suggest that you use the links on the left of the page.

 

A place for browsing, learning, and becoming more familiar with our Escher items. Each link will take you to a larger picture with descriptive quotes. We even have a "ZOOM" mode that allows for an even closer inspection. Look for us to highlight different products with different artworks regularly.

 

 

Welcome to our Gallery !

 

We are glad to see you here, we are the oldest Private Gallery in Moldova but we are very young on the Web. Anyway we'd like to introduce to you a small collection of professional Moldavian artists.

If you have any comments and impressions, feel free to send us a message, now, at the very beginning of Internet activity it's very important for us.

Shortly we will have a personal exhibition for each artist (first one already is progress.

I hope you will enjoy this Site.

Art gallery

 

An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings. Sculpture, illustrations, and objects from the applied arts may also be shown. The term is used both for both public galleries, which are museums for the display of a permanent collection of art, and private galleries, which are commercial enterprises for the sale of art. However both types of gallery may host temporary exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.

Although the art collections of monarchs and aristocrats were often available for public viewing for part of the time, at least by the middle and upper classes, the art museum is considered a fairly modern invention, the first publicly owned and easily accessible one being the Louvre in Paris, which was established in 1793, soon after the French Revolution when the royal collections became state property. Here we see the beginnings of removing art collections from the private domain of aristocracy and the wealthy into the public sphere, where they were seen as sites for educating the masses in taste and cultural refinement. Early museums in America were often a part of or affiliated with Lyceums, Atheneaums, or Libraries with a broader cultural mission, and were not necessarily devoted exclusively to art. Many museums are associated with universities or colleges.

The word gallery derives from the Latin and Italian word for a type of large room. Generally, the term art gallery is used to mean buildings or locations dedicated to displaying and/or selling art, though the large rooms in museums where art is displayed for the public are often referred to as galleries as well, with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being called the Egyptian Gallery, for example.

Most large urban areas will have several private art galleries, and most towns will be home to at least one. However, they may also be found in smaller villages, and quite remote areas, often places where artists have congregated. Examples include the Taos art colony in Taos, New Mexico, and St Ives, Cornwall.

Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as music concerts or poetry readings. Conversely, some works of visual art are not shown in a gallery. In particular, works on paper, such as drawings and old master prints are considered by curators as unable to be permanently displayed for conservation reasons. Instead any collection is held in a print room in the museum. Murals generally remain where they have been painted, although many have been removed to galleries. Various forms of 20th century art, such as land art and performance art, also usually exist outside a gallery. Photographic records of these kinds of art are often shown in galleries, however. Most large museum art galleries own more works than they have room to display. The rest are held in reserve collections, on or off-site.

Similar to an art gallery is the sculpture garden (or sculpture park), which presents sculpture in an outdoor space. Sculpture installation has grown in popularity, whereby temporary sculptures are installed in open spaces during events like festivals.