Rooms where the paintings are displayed for the visitors to viewing purposes are known as Paintings' rooms. To keep away the paintings' from external atmosphere and damages, they need to be preserved.
Moreover, the damages sometimes occur due to too many visitors
to the room, who sometimes, touch or take out the paint from the
paintings with their fingers or objects.
Also, appropriate ventilation, preferably natural air and
mild sunlight is required in the room for the paintings to
be viewed properly, and to retain their beauty. In order to
avoid all these problems, and increase the longevity of the
paintings, the concept of paintings rooms came into existence.
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There are few tips that if followed would increase the longevity
and popularity of the paintings. As painting is an art, so
is the displaying part of it. Every room has its own quality. In order to get popularity of the painting, the room should be popular,
that is, people should not feel any inconvenience visiting
it, and it should not be a shelter for direct heat, or sunlight,
as these fade certain pigments, and turn the varnish into
yellow shades on the paintings.
To display popular paintings, good rooms
are essential. Before moving a painting into a room,
one should check if the room is well lit, spacious,
not congested with too much furniture or no furniture,
the accessibility of the room, that is, it should not
be too inside.
One should also remember that fireplace becomes an enemy
to the paintings in few ways, that is, if the paintings
are kept right above the mantel, the soot, flames, and
dust may affect the colors or pigments in the paintings.
One should remember to place the paintings away from
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Moreover, they should not be exposed to direct or harsh
lighting or UV-lights also. The living rooms can be appropriate
provided one takes care to keep them away from children or
any other person touching while examining the paintings.
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