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On October 8 the National Gallery is re-opening a suite of six rooms, the first to be completely redecorated since the War. Many of the pictures to be shown in these have been re-framed. Nearly all will be shown without glass; though they will be protected by low barriers of silk cord. Fluorescent lighting is being installed in all the rooms. In one of them the walls will be covered with loose hangings of damask. These are all experiments towards the method of exhibition to be adopted in another suite of rooms, now half derelict, which is to be completely remodelled and air-conditioned. The pictures hung in five of the redecorated rooms will be the seventy which have been cleaned during the last ten years. In order of cleaning, they will begin and end with the two portraits of King Philip IV by Velázquez. In date they will range from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries. The exhibition will show the cleaned pictures together for the first time, on clean backgrounds. Examined under these conditions, and with the help of a few demonstration pictures, 120 comparative photographs, X-radiographs, etc., and a catalogue giving the relevant facts, it will be possible to assess the correspondence on the subject which has appeared in the Press during recent months.
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Exhibition at the National Gallery. Nature 160, 291 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160291d0
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