GALLERY, in architecture, any of various 'rooms, corridors, platforms, etc.: (1) A corri dor or long, narrow room, sometimes serving as a means of access to other parts of a house; especially, a covet-0 space for walking, partly open at the side; in English country houses, a main corridor having a continuous row of windows on one side. Galleries of this class include the low, paneled halls of the old châ teaux and manor houses, particularly English houses of the 16th and 17th centuries; here were kept family portraits, arms and armor, trophies of the chase, banners, fine furniture, bric-a-brac, etc. (Compare (4) below). Be longing to this class also are such galleries as the one connecting the Sainte Chapelle with the Palais de Justice at Paris and the one connect ing the Palazzo Pitti with the Palazzo Vecchio at Florence. (2) A long, narrow platform, balcony or passage projecting from a wall and open at the outer side except as having a balus trade or railing; especially, a passage either within the thickness of a wall, or supported on corbels, having its open side toward the in terior of a building and serving both for orna ment and as a means of communication. It is connected in some intimate way with the archi tectural design of the building. To this class belong the triforium and external galleries of many Gothic churches. These galleries are of
ten filled with statuary, as the galerie des raj: at the cathedrals of Paris and Amiens and at the ruined cathedral of Rheims. (3) A platform, supported by columns, brackets, or the like and projecting from the interior wall of a building, as a church or theatre, usually to provide addi tional room for an audience; specifically in a theatre, the highest of such platforms, con taining the cheapest seats. (4) A room, typic ally long and narrow, or a building, for the ex hibition of works of art. Famous galleries are the Louvre at Paris, the Uffizi and Pitt at Flor ence, the Vatican and Borghese at Rome, and the National at London. Other galleries con taining renowned paintings or sculptures are at Versailles, Venice, Milan, Petrograd, Madrid; Dresden, Vienna, New York, etc. (5) A place of business or pleasure shaped like a gallery or in some way analogous to it; as a photo graph gallery, a shooting gallery.
As a nautical term, gallery means a plat form outside the body of the ship, at the stern or at the quarters. It was formerly common. In mining, a working drift or level. In forti fication, any sunk or cut passageway that is covered both overhead and at the sides.