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… to the Great Room at Somerset House, in themselves a sign of interest for the exhibition room as public space, show spectators in pairs and larger groups, thus suggesting that the viewing of art was a sociable experience, works of art … conversation. 11 Even if the motto inscribed in the Great Room, ‘Let No Stranger to the Muses Enter’, seemed to incite spectators to behave like connoisseurs and comment on historical painting, the elite genre at the top of the academic …
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