A review by marginaliant
The National Gallery: An Illustrated History by Alan Crookham

3.0

This book makes me want to visit the gallery, and what else can you say about a book that's very clearly intended as a grandiose advertisement? To be fair, the history is fairly well written, but it's not well organized, but there's some interesting information (and a very, very funny anecdote about the acquisition of one painting.) And if the evacuation of the gallery during WWII doesn't tug at your heartstrings, I don't know what to do about you.