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Display and Art History: The Düsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue
At the Getty Research Institute, Getty Center
May 31—August 21, 2011
Display and Art History: The Düsseldorf Gallery and Its Catalogue, on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center from May 31 through August 21, 2011, illustrates the making of one of the earliest modern catalogues, La galerie electorale de Dusseldorff (1778), a revolutionary two-volume publication that played a significant role in the history of museums and helped mark the transition from the Baroque to the Enlightenment.
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