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Museum ideals of purpose and method (1918)

Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1852-1933, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Cambridge, Printed by order of the trustees of the Museum at the Riverside Press · leaf 240

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; in ameasure also fulfilling Mr. Brewers ideal of the appli-cation of clerestory light to lower rooms.1 1 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Communications to the Trustees, vol. in,pp. 106, 108. GLARE IN MUSEUM GALLERIES 209 The nave is lighted from windows along the side wallswith sills at sixty-seven… … Diagram 21 light in the nave might be too intense for the best seeing.In any case curtains would be desirable to cut off directsun. The screen with its cornice at eleven to thirteenfeet from the floor would give a background rising muchabove the customary eight-foot case for smaller…

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