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Definition: GALLERIES |
GALLERIESPlural1. Of Gallery |
Date "GALLERIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art, and usually primarily paintings and sculpture. It is also sometimes used as a location for the sale of art.
Generally, the term art gallery is used to mean a building or location 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 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 incluce 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 and, due to their form, never can be. Altarpieces, for example, are rarely shown in galleries, and murals generally remain where they have been painted. 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.
Similar to an art gallery is the sculpture garden (or sculpture park), which presents sculpture in an outdoor space.
Famous galleries include:
- Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, Museum Island
- Bilbao: Guggenheim Museum
- Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago
- Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland
- Florence: Uffizi
- London: National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum
- Madrid: Museo del Prado
- Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria
- New York: The Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art
- Paris: Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Musée Rodin
- Venice: Peggy Guggenheim Collection
- St. Petersburg: Hermitage
- Taipei, Taiwan: National Palace Museum
External Links
- Websites for many art museums
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Art gallery."
Crosswords: GALLERIES |
| English words defined with "GALLERIES": Carpenter ant, Carpenter bee ♦ Ecoute ♦ Hypogeum ♦ mole cricket ♦ SoHo ♦ Wax moth, white ant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GALLERIES": art preparator ♦ circuits ♦ FINE ARTS PACKER ♦ mine car circuit, mine circulating fan, mine mason, mine prop ♦ Picture Galleries, pit prop, pitprops ♦ RAPHAEL, RODIN ♦ SEBASTIAN, sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries, solution mining ♦ TITIAN ♦ UNKNOWN ♦ VERSONNESE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GALLERIES": Gallery. (references) |
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 | Photographed circa the later 1880s or early 1890s. The original print identifies this ship as USS Alliance, which it is not. The letter "G" on the bow of the embarked boats (on davits aft, and in water amidships) show her to be Galena. Other recognition features for this class include the quarter galleries and the six broadside gun ports aft of the single pivot port. Credit: NAVY. |  | Church interior with galleries and vaulted ceiling. Perspective sketch. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Galleries, Toledo Museum of Art, The. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Detroit Photographic Company galleries, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Galleries, Toledo Museum of Art. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Zinc. Belt conveyor galleries at a large zinc concentrator plant. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Morenci, Arizona. Conveyor galleries where ore is transported to the smelter plant in the background. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Clippings about Arnold Genthe's exhibition of photographs from Greece and Rhodes at the Anderson Galleries. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | W. & J. Sloane National Art Week, 5th Ave. & 47th St., New York City. Babcock Galleries, Robert Philipp. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Light Organ" by Craig Young Commentary: "Pic from Art Galleries Glasgow. Great light in the main hall." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Saint Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. |
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Travel | Mexico | Mexico City has a vibrant cultural life offering concerts, opera, and theater as well as art galleries and many museums. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GALLERIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 81.77% of the time. "GALLERIES" is used about 1,184 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 81.77% | 968 | 7,532 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.23% | 216 | 20,583 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,184 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Tangible Asset Galleries, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "GALLERIES": sediment diverting galleries ♦ sediment intercepting galleries. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GALLERIES": picture-galleries, warehouses-turned-art-galleries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
porn star galleries.com | 103 |
galleries.com jamies | 57 |
galleries.com hanks | 15 |
galleries.com vienna | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GALLERIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 画廊 (Gallery). (various references) | |
Danish | sedimentafledende afsatser (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries), have adgang til tilhørerlogerne;få adgang til logerne (to be admitted to the galleries). (various references) | |
Dutch | Vereniging van Galeriehouders en handelaren in Hedendaagse Kunst (Association of Galleries and Dealers in Contemporary Art), tot de tribune toegelaten worden (to be admitted to the galleries), omloopmolen voor zand-en slibafvoer (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries). (various references) | |
Finnish | lietettä poisjohtava tunneli (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries), lietettä poisjohtava kanava (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries). (various references) | |
French | tribunes. (various references) | |
German | Galerien (altars, steps), Emporen. (various references) | |
Greek | σήραγγες ανασχέσεως προσχώσεων (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries). (various references) | |
Italian | gallarie. (various references) | |
Korean | 화랑 (Gallery). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alleriesgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | galerias de intercepção de sedimentos (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries), ter acesso às galerias;ser admitido nas galerias (to be admitted to the galleries). (various references) | |
Spanish | galerías de intercepción de sedimentos (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries), galería de desviación de sedimentos (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries), ser admitido en las tribunas (to be admitted to the galleries). (various references) | |
Swedish | sedimentavledande tunnelgalleri (sediment diverting galleries, sediment intercepting galleries). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TrachloV sou wV purgoV elefantinoV ofqalmoi sou wV limnai en esebwn en pulaiV qugatroV pollwn mukthr sou wV purgoV tou libanou skopeuwn proswpon damaskou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Caput tuum ut Carmelus et comae capitis tui sicut purpura regis vincta canalibus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thin hed as Carmel; thin heres of thin hed as the purper of the king, ioyned to water pipes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ang imong ulo sa ibabaw nimo sama sa Carmelo, Ug ang buhok sa imong ulo ingon sa purpura; Ang hari nahimong binihag sa mga kulong niana. |
| Croatian | Vrat je tvoj kao kula bjelokosna. Oèi su tvoje kao ribnjaci u Hešbonu kod vrata batrabimskih. Nos ti je kao kula libanska što gleda prema Damasku. |
| Danish | Hovedet på dig som Karmel, dit Hoveds Lokker som Purpur; en Konge er fanget i Garnet. |
| Dutch | Uw hoofd op u is als Karmel, en de haarband uws hoofds als purper; de koning is als gebonden op de galerijen. |
| Finnish | Sinun pääsi kohoaa kuin Karmel, sinun pääsi palmikot ovat kuin purppura; niihin pauloihin on kuningas kiedottu." |
| German | Dein Haupt steht auf dir wie der Karmel. Das Haar auf deinem Haupt ist wie der Purpur des Königs, in Falten gebunden. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kepalamu bagaikan bukit Karmel; rambutmu yang dikepang seperti lembayung, mempesonakan bahkan seorang raja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Kepala yang di atasmu itu seperti Karmel; anyaman rambutmu seperti warna ungu, seorang raja terjerat dengan ikal-ikal rambutmu. |
| Maori | Ko tou mahunga i runga i a koe rite tonu ki Karamere, a ko te makawe o tou mahunga ki te papura; e mau herehere ana te kingi i roto i ona uru. |
| Norwegian | Ditt hode hever sig likesom Karmel; ditt bølgende hår er som purpur; kongen er fanget i dine lokker. |
| Portuguese | A tua cabeça sobre ti é como o monte Carmelo, e os cabelos da tua cabeça como a púrpura; o rei está preso pelas tuas tranças. |
| Rumanian | Capul tqu este cum e Carmelul, wi pqrul capului tqu este ca purpura kmpqrqteascq: pknq wi un kmpqrat ar fi knlqnyuit de pletele tale!... |
| Spanish | Tu cabeza es como el Carmelo, y tu cabellera es como púrpura real aprisionada en trenzas. |
| Swedish | Ditt huvud höjer sig såsom Karmel, och lockarna på ditt huvud hava purpurglans. En konung är fångad i deras snara.» ---- |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"GALLERIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galaries, galerie, Galerien, galeries, galerist, Galerius, Gallerie, galleriers, Gallesio, gileras. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GALLERIES" (pronounced ga"lerēz) |
| 5 | -a" l er ē z | calories, salaries. |
| 4 | -l er ē z | burglaries, distilleries. |
| 3 | -er ē z | accessories, advisories, anniversaries, armories, arteries, bakeries, batteries, boundaries, breweries, calvaries, canneries, centuries, deliveries, diaries, directories, discoveries, documentaries, draperies, eateries, embroideries, factories, fisheries, forgeries, groceries, hatcheries, hickories, histories, injuries, inquiries, lotteries, luxuries, machineries, memories, microbreweries, miseries, mysteries, nurseries, ovaries, penitentiaries, quandaries, recoveries, refineries, refractories, reveries, robberies, rosaries, sceneries, summaries, surgeries, treasuries, vagaries, victories, wineries. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: allergies. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: allegers, galilees, gaselier, legalise. | |
-2 letters: alleger, alleges, galeres, galilee, gallies, gillers, glaires, grilles, rallies, realise, regales, sallier. | |
-3 letters: aeries, agrees, allees, allege, allies, argils, argles, ariels, eagers, eagles, eagres, easier, galere, giller, glaire, glairs, glares, grails, grease, grille, grills, grilse, lagers, larees, larges, leaser, legals, legers, lieges, ligase, ligers, ragees, reales, regale, relies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: allegories, allegorise, legalizers, treillages. | |
+2 letters: allegorised, allegorises, allegorizes, galleryites, legislature, permillages, villageries. | |
+3 letters: allegorizers, legislatures, metallurgies. | |
+4 letters: aspergilloses, everlastingly, hellgrammites, intertillages, stereological. | |
+5 letters: candlelighters, estrogenically, steamrollering. | |
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