Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum.

A catalogue for one of the great courts in the 1854 Crystal Palace at Sydenham. The authors provide a synoptic history of the Italian Renaissance and its main i

The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its sombre displays were far from b