fifty-one rooms, and the doors already open
Two hundred and thirty-two paintings, prints and drawings — Giotto, Fra Angelico, Van Eyck, Bellini, Giorgione, Leonardo, Botticelli, Bosch, Dürer, Titian, Veronese, Holbein, Bruegel, Caravaggio, Hals, Rubens, Velázquez, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, Canaletto, Watteau, Sōtatsu, Tōhaku, Jakuchū, Elsheimer, Claude, Poussin, Piero della Francesca, Rogier van der Weyden, Fra Filippo Lippi, Bronzino, Correggio, Poussin, Uccello, Altdorfer, Jordaens, Honthorst, Georges de La Tour, Leyster, Steen, Van de Velde, Bakhuizen, Vernet, Emanuel de Witte, Wright of Derby, Panini, Boucher, Fragonard, Piranesi, Zoffany, Batoni, Bellotto, Hubert Robert, Kauffman, David, Girodet, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Stubbs, Lawrence, El Greco, Goya, Hokusai, Friedrich, Constable, Turner, Cole, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Church, Bierstadt, Rosa Bonheur, Ingres, Thomas Jones, Grimshaw, Alma-Tadema, Poynter, Gérôme, Moreau, Redon, Khnopff, Franz von Stuck, Puvis de Chavannes, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Kramskoi, Hassam, Shishkin, Levitan, Vrubel, Repin, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Caillebotte, Cézanne, Sargent, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Klimt. You come in off the street into a twelve-metre vestibule, and through it into the Great Hall — fifteen metres across, eight to the ceiling, and holding nothing at all. Every one of the forty-nine galleries has something on its walls now, including the hall eleven metres high and the gallery sixteen metres long. The two rooms that hold nothing are the hall and the way in, and those are meant to be empty.
hanging the pictures
Turn your phone sideways. The rooms are wider than they are tall
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