11.   Paintings are displayed.

12.   Sixteen months ago Mayor Rudolph Giuliani threatened to shut down the Brooklyn Museum of Art for displaying a painting of an African Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung.

13.   The painting is displayed in the Chelsea living room.

14.   The paintings are displayed here in five rooms, on walls lined with olive-green linen, illuminated by a mix of gentle spotlights and soft daylight.

15.   The paintings are smartly displayed, set high on the walls to allow clear sight lines in crowds.

16.   The paintings are not displayed in the order in which they were painted.

17.   The university has displayed the painting exactly once -- and even then, found space to show only a part of it.

18.   These create rectilinear patterns of shadow, an awkward background for displaying paintings.

19.   A gallery or museum with particularly high ceilings is needed to display Chinese painting because art work tends to be tall rather than wide.

20.   Before this exhibition, the paintings were displayed at the National Gallery in London, most of them for the first time outside of Italy.