All these relationships between women, I thought, rapidly recalling the splendid gallery of fictitious women, are too simple.

On the night between the 19th and 20th of March Napoleon reached Fontainebleau, and again paused, as had formerly been his custom, with short, quick steps through the antiquated but splendid galleries of that old palace.

The Encyclopedists catalogued natural specimens, and their efforts are still on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, a splendid 19th-century gallery stunningly renovated by the architects Paul Chemetov and Borja Huidobro four years ago.

A beautifully revamped 18th-century manor house is home to a stylish restaurant and a splendid gallery showcasing the best local artists.

Only slightly unfairly, Christiansen writes in "The Victorian Visitors" that "England offered not revered teachers, splendid galleries, noble traditions or a discriminating elite, but a free market, a large audience and lots and lots of money."

By this time night was falling and they all went back to the palace, where coffee and fruits were served in a splendid gallery, near the women's apartments.

The splendid gallery was originally designed by John Nash as a conservatory.

Malaga is not exactly on the international exhibition circuit, but for this show, which is on view through Jan. 11, a splendid new gallery has been created in the remodeled interior of the Archbishop's Palace.

The courtyard facade is one of the most evocative in Cesena, with a splendid three-storey gallery, with white stone columns on the two lower levels, which affords a view of the front of the Malatestiana Library.

Between the upper and lower levels of the Rose Center is a spiral walkway (reminiscent of the Guggenheim Museum) with a splendid gallery of 220 astronomical photographs arrayed in order of their distances in time and space from the Big Bang to the present.