The lighting style is very elaborately designed. There is not any light bulb or anycharacteristic light bothering the sight. The light is soft. Its intensity is appropriate to the sight ; not so dim that cannot see the detail of the work or not so bright that can damage the work. Photography is usually forbidden because the flash can effect on the color of the artworks.
The relativity between the gallerys style and the lighting style can be classified in 5 styles
Style 1 The room is narrowly rectangular. The wall and the ceiling are cemented in the curved plane and no angle. The ceiling is the dimmed nature light glass or set the light bulbs above the dimmed light glass (Picture 1) for example, the gallery in The Louvre Museum (Picture 2).
Style 2 It is the gallery whose the wall and the ceiling are cemented in the narrow curved plane. In there, it sets the light bulb above the dimmed light glass at the middle of the ceiling. Along the top of the wall, there is the light shining to the curved plane and the ceilings for spreading the light reflect throughout the gallery (Picture 3 ) like in The Louvre Museum and British Museum.
Style 3 The ceiling of the gallery in this style is high and curved or like the pyramid from. The light of the light bulb or the nature light shines from the top of ceiling. For this gallerys style, if the gallery is so wide, it can set the dimmed light object for softening the light (Picture 5, 6 ) such as The Richard Meier Museum (Picture 7 )
Style 4 The gallery in this style is ordinarily square. The ceiling is plain. If it has not much space, it will set some light bulbs hided above the dimmed light glass on the ceiling to give enough brightness. If the gallery is big, the light at the middle of the ceiling will be increased to make the middle of the room more luminous (Picture 8 ). Some galleries hide the light bulb in light reflecting hole (Picture 9 ) like at The Tate Gallery (now The Tate Britain) in London and at The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. (Picture 10 )
Style 5 It is the long gallery like the balcony. There is the nature light shining from one side but another side is opaque. The dimmed light object and the light bulb would be set at the top of the wall and reflect from the ceiling (Picture 11 ) like The Uffizi Gallery (Picture 12 ).
All of the lighting styles presentd above are just the example that often seen. There might be other styles depending on the ability and designing concept. Anyways, it would follow the same rules. That is the light intensity is suitable for viewing the artworks and does not damage the artworks in the gallery.
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