York Art Gallery
Victorian sandstone gallery with painted tile panels, a ceramics centre and a famed Etty collection.
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About this audio guide
This guide to York Art Gallery on Exhibition Square looks hard at the stone front in front of you and at what its Victorian architect, Edward Taylor, drew for it before the building opened for a great Yorkshire exhibition in eighteen seventy-nine. It touches on a vast temporary hall that once stood behind, on Leonardo and Michelangelo turning up in painted tiles, and on what an eight million pound rebuild added. Best heard from the middle of the square, facing the loggia.
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