Display panel and image display apparatus

A display panel comprising:

• a vacuum vessel provided with a face plate, a rear plate having a surface that opposes the face plate at an interval therefrom, a connecting member that surrounds a space between the face plate and the rear plate, is provided between the face plate and the rear plate and connects the face plate and the rear plate, and a plurality of plate-like spacers provided between the face plate and the rear plate so that the lengthwise directions thereof are parallel to each other, and
• a fixing member adhered to the vacuum vessel by a plurality of linear bonding members provided on a surface of the rear plate on the opposite side from the surface opposing the face plate, wherein
• each of the plurality of linear bonding members is provided to the rear plate at mutually prescribed intervals and along the lengthwise direction of the plurality of spacers, and
• the plurality of linear bonding members are provided only in a portion of a region on the surface of the rear plate on the opposite side from the surface opposing the face plate, the portion of the region being located on the opposite side from the region surrounded by the connecting member on the surface of the rear plate that opposes the face plate.