Gallery

in architecture, a long. narrow room, the width of which i: at least three times le than _ its length. Galleries are not destined tc be occupied as sitting rooms, but for dancing, music, dining on festival occasions; and are generally decorated with pictures in oil or fresco. The term is also applied to a _ platform projecting from the walls of a building supported by piers, and _ in ° churches, theaters, and similar buildings, to the upper floors going around the building next the wall. Also ap plied to a collection of pictures.