gallery

gallery

In architecture, a long, covered space open on one side, such as a portico or a colonnade. It may be recessed into a wall or elevated on columns or corbels, and it often serves as a passageway. Within an interior, a gallery may be a platform or upper floor projecting from a wall (e.g., in a legislative house) with seating for spectators. In a church nave, the long, narrow platforms supported by colonnades are called tribune galleries. In a theatre, the gallery is the highest balcony and generally has the cheapest seats. Galleries appeared in Renaissance houses as long, narrow rooms used both as promenades and to exhibit art. The modern art gallery is their descendant.

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gallery

1. a room or building for exhibiting works of art

2. a covered passageway open on one side or on both sides

3. 

a. a balcony running along or around the inside wall of a church, hall, etc.

b. a covered balcony, sometimes with columns on the outside

4. Theatre

a. an upper floor that projects from the rear over the main floor and contains the cheapest seats

b. the seats there

c. the audience seated there

5. a long narrow room, esp one used for a specific purpose

6. Chiefly US a building or room where articles are sold at auction

7. Theatre a narrow raised platform at the side or along the back of the stage for the use of technicians and stagehands

8. Nautical a balcony or platform at the quarter or stern of a ship, sometimes used as a gun emplacement