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In What Ways Did Art Become More Widely Accessible in England in the Eighteenth Century?
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In What Ways Did Art Become More Widely Accessible in England in the Eighteenth Century? In this day and age we take public art displays for granted; every town has its own small gallery and each city has at least one building for the presentation of art works. However, there were no real public art exhibitions until more modern times, with the exception, perhaps, of in Ancient times when the Greeks and Romans would display artefacts and paintings looted from other countries, and decorated the exterior of their buildings with statues. In Europe they were more forthcoming in presenting exhibitions. From the sixteenth century an annual public exhibition of art was held in the Pantheon and in other churches in Italy, although this was designed more to honour the saints than to display art. "In France, Napoleon's plunder of works of art was parade through the streets of Paris in a...
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