The National Gallery: A Short History - Hardcover

Saumarez Smith, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711230439 ISBN 13: 9780711230439

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2009

Synopsis

Rare Book

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Review:

Admirable and entertaining. --Art Quarterly

Saumerez Smith is particulary good on the architectural history and neatly summarises each director's contribution. Detail is telling. --Independent

This readable short history of the National Gallery is an intelligent synopsis of the achievements of successive directors from 1824 to 2002 ... There are judicious assessments of earlier directors, and deserved rehabilitations of Sir Charles Holmes and Philip Hendy. Many good stories are amusingly retold... --Country Life

About the Author:

Charles Saumarez Smith CBE was director of the National Gallery from 2002 to 2007. The main success of his directorship was the purchase of Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks in 2004 for £22 million, raised by a successful public appeal. He was formerly director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1994, and is currently Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts. Charles Saumarez Smith has written books on Castle Howard and 18th century interior design, and contributed biographies on Quentin Bell and Philip McCammon Core to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London and an occasional panelist on the BBC's Newsnight Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0711230439
• ISBN 13: 9780711230439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192