The National Gallery of Scotland viewed from the south in front of the Royal Scottish Academy and Princes Street

The National Gallery of Scotland, viewed from the north

The Entrance of National Gallery of Scotland

"Montagne Sainte-Victoire" by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)

"Mrs Robert Scott Moncrieff" by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)

"The Lomellini Family" by Van Dyck (1599-1641)

"Madonna and Child" by Don Lorenzo Monaco (1370-1425)

The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. The building, which was designed by William Henry Playfair, first opened to the public in 1859. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (4283x1561, 1714 KB) The Mound in Edinburgh with the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy Building seen from the south. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (4283x1561, 1714 KB) The Mound in Edinburgh with the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy Building seen from the south. ... The Royal Scottish Academy is Scotland’s premier organisation promoting contemporary Scottish art. ... 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Princes Street Gardens is in Edinburgh, Scotland in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle which was once the sewage system, called the Nor Loch, for the city whos population lived in what modern times would call highrise flats (apartments). ... Old College, University of Edinburgh, courtyard facade: detail by Playfair William Henry Playfair (1790-1857) was one of the greatest Scottish architects of the 19th Century. ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

The National Gallery shares the Mound with the Royal Scottish Academy Building. In 1912 both were remodelled by William Thomas Oldrieve. When it re-opened, the gallery concentrated on building its permanent collection of Scottish and European art for the nation. Categories: Stub | Edinburgh ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

The archive and study facilities at the National Gallery include the Prints and Drawings Collection of over 30,000 works on paper, from the early Renaissance to the late nineteenth century; and the reference-only research library, which is available to the general public. The library covers the period from 1300 to 1900 and holds approximately 50,000 volumes of books, journals, slides, photographs and microfiches, as well as archived material relating to the collections, exhibitions and history of the National Gallery. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Renaissance#Start of the Renaissance. ...

The Playfair Project, an underground interconnection between the two buildings, opened on 4 August 2004. This contains a lecture theatre, education area, shop, restaurant and an interactive, touch-screen IT Gallery showing the collections of the National Galleries. Between the two buildings is a modern square, affording views of Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street. The Playfair Project created an underground link between the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy Building. ... The castle dominates the Edinburgh skyline as seen here from Princes Street Gardens Edinburgh Castle is an ancient fortress which, from its position atop Castle Rock, dominates the sky-line of the city of Edinburgh, and is Scotlands second most visited tourist attraction, after the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and... Princes Street, as viewed facing west from the Scott Monument Princes Street and the Castle at twilight Princes Street is the main shopping street in Edinburgh city centre, although it was originally designed to be a residential street. ...

Collection

At the heart of the National Gallery's collection is a group of paintings transferred from the Royal Scottish Academy Building. This includes masterpieces by Jacopo Bassano, Van Dyck and Giambattista Tiepolo. The National Gallery did not receive its own purchase grant until 1903.^[1] The Royal Scottish Academy is Scotland’s premier organisation promoting contemporary Scottish art. ... Jacopos The Last Supper Jacopo Bassano (also known as Giacomo da Ponte, c. ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (*March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. ... The Death of Hyacinth Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770) was a Venetian painter. ...

Key works of art displayed at the National Gallery include:

• Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo and Design for a Papal Monument
• Sandro Botticelli, Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
• Antonio Canova, The Three Graces (displayed on rotation with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London)
• Paul Cézanne, The Big Trees and Montagne Sainte-Victoire
• Jean Siméon Chardin, Vase of Flowers
• John Constable, Dedham Vale
• Gerard David, Three Legends of St Nicholas
• Edgar Degas, Portrait of Diego Martelli
• Antoon van Dyck, The Lomellini Family
• Thomas Gainsborough, The Hon. Mrs Graham
• Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon
• Hugo van der Goes, The Trinity Altarpiece (on loan from the Royal Collection)
• Francisco de Goya, El Medico
• El Greco, Fábula
• Gavin Hamilton, Dawkins and Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra
• Dominique Ingres, Mlle Albertine Hayard
• Claude Monet, Haystacks
• Nicolas Poussin, The Seven Sacraments
• Sir Henry Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch
• Allan Ramsay, Margaret Lindsay
• Raphael, Bridgewater Madonna
• Rembrandt van Rijn, A Woman in Bed and Self-Portrait
• Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Ladies Waldegrave
• Pieter Jansz Saenredam, San Bavo, Haarlem
• Georges Seurat, La Luzerne, St-Denis
• Titian, Venus Anadyomene, Diana and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, and The Three Ages of Man
• Joseph Mallord William Turner, Somer Hill and the Vaughan Bequest of 38 works
• Diego Velázquez, An Old Woman Cooking Eggs
• Johannes Vermeer, Jan Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
• Antoine Watteau, Fêtes venetiènnes

Other artists represented in the collection include: Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome. ... Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (little barrel) (March 1, 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). ... Self-portrait by Canova, 1792. ... A frontal depiction of the version of the sculpture found in the Hermitage Museum. ... The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the worlds largest and finest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4. ... “Cezanne” redirects here. ... Self portrait, 1771 pastel, Musée du Louvre, Paris. ... A self portrait by John Constable John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. ... Annunciation from 1506, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gerard David (c. ... Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (IPA ), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. ... Sir Anthony van Dyck (many variant spellings [1] See Van Dyke for other uses of all spellings), (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England. ... Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain. ... Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. ... Hugo van der Goes (c. ... Shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens over more than 500 years, the Royal Collection includes paintings, drawings and watercolours, furniture, ceramics, clocks, silver, sculpture, jewellery, books, manuscripts, prints and maps, arms and armour, fans, and textiles. ... This article is about Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter. ... El Greco (The Greek, 1541 – April 7, 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. ... Gavin Hamilton by Ozias Humphry, 1778, pencil, NGS Gavin Hamilton (1723, Lanark - January 4, 1798, Rome) was a Scottish neoclassical history painter, who is more widely remembered for his hunts for antiquities in the neighborhood of Rome. ... Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (pronounced (Ang, rhymes with bang, with a hint of the r, but the final es is not pronounced) (August 29, 1780 - January 14, 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. ... Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)[1] was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movements philosophy of expressing ones perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein... Les Bergers d’Arcadie, set in Ancient Greece. ... Sir Henry Raeburn (March 4, 1756 - July 8, 1823) was a Scottish portrait-painter. ... The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, better known by its truncated title The Skating Minister, is an oil painting by Sir Henry Raeburn in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. ... Portrait of David Hume by Allan Ramsay, 1766. ... This article is about the Renaissance artist. ... Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history, and the most important United Provinces (Netherlands) painter of the seventeenth century. ... Sir Joshua Reynolds in a self-portrait Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769. ... Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597 - 1665) was a Dutch painter, a contemporary compatriot of Rembrandt, noted chiefly for his surprisingly modern paintings of chrurches. ... Le Chahut was painted by Seurat from 1889 to 1890. ... Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. ... Venus Anadyomene (Greek - literally Venus rising from the sea), is a c. ... For other uses, see Diana and Actaeon (disambiguation). ... J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ... For others named Velázquez, see Velazquez (disambiguation). ... “Vermeer” redirects here. ... Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 - July 18, 1721) was a French Rococo painter. ...

• David Allan
• Francis Bacon
• Federico Barocci
• William Blake
• David Young Cameron
• Gustave Courbet
• Aelbert Cuyp
• Eugène Delacroix
• Domenichino
• Albrecht Dürer
• William Dyce
• Adam Elsheimer
• Andrew Geddes
• Vincent van Gogh
• Guercino
• James Guthrie
• Frans Hals
• Meindert Hobbema
• Hans Holbein the Younger
• Edward Atkinson Hornel
• Robert Scott Lauder
• Horatio McCulloch
• William York Macgregor
• William MacTaggart
• Lorenzo Monaco
• Berthe Morisot
• John Phillip
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi
• Camille Pissarro
• Peter Paul Rubens
• William Strang
• Tintoretto
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Sir David Wilkie
• Francisco de Zurbarán

For other uses, see David Allan The Highland Wedding, David Allan, 1780. ... Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish figurative painter. ... Annunciation (1592-96) Oil on canvas, Santa Maria degli Angeli, Perugia. ... William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. ... Sir David Young Cameron (born June 28, 1865 in Glasgow, Scotland, died in Perth, Scotland on September 16, 1945) is a Scottish painter and etcher. ... Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. ... The Negro Page Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (Dordrecht October 20, 1620 - Dordrecht November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. ... Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 – August 13, 1863) was one of the most important of the French Romantic painters. ... Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino) (October 21, 1581 - April 15, 1641), Italian painter, born at Bologna, was the son of a shoemaker. ... Albrecht Dürer (pronounced /al. ... King Lear and the Fool in the Storm William Dyce (September 19, 1806, Aberdeen, Scotland—February 14, 1864, London) was a distinguished Scottish artist]. Dyce began his career at the Royal Academy schools, and then traveled to Rome for the first time in 1825. ... Adam Elsheimer (b. ... Andrew Geddes (born 1783 in Edinburgh; died 1844 in London) was a British painter. ... “van Gogh” redirects here. ... The Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591—1666) known as Guercino, was born at Cento, a village not far from Bologna. ... Sir James Guthrie (1859–1930) was a Scottish painter known for his portraiture. ... Frans Hals (c. ... Meindert Hobbema (c. ... A 1543 portrait miniature of Hans Holbein the Younger by Lucas Horenbout Holbeins 1533 painting The Ambassadors Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ... Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. ... Robert Scott Lauder, (1803 - April 21, 1869) was a leading Scottish mid-Victorian artist who described himself as a historical painter. // He was born at Silvermills House, Edinburgh, on June 25, 1803, the third son of John Lauder of Silvermills (d. ... White Horse Close, Edinburgh, 1845, National Gallery of Scotland. ... Duet, 1958, Tate Gallery. ... The Flight into Egypt (c. ... Berthe Morisot in a portrait by Édouard Manet, 1872 Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was an Impressionist painter. ... John Phillip The Evil Eye (1859), a self-portrait depicting the artist sketching a Spanish gypsy who thinks she is being given the evil eye John Phillip (1817-1867) was a Victorian era painter best known for his portrayals of Spanish life. ... Piranesi redirects here. ... The garden of Pontoise, painted 1875. ... Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish and European painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. ... William Strang (February 3, 1859 - 1921) was a Scottish painter and engraver. ... Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin) September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594) was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. ... “Da Vinci” redirects here. ... Sir David Wilkie (November 18, 1785 - June 1, 1841) was a Scottish painter. ... Francisco Zurbarán (November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664), was a Spanish painter, born at Fuente de Cantos in Extremadura. ...

References

1. ^ About the National Gallery of Scotland, natgalscot.ac.uk

See also

• National Galleries of Scotland

The National Galleries of Scotland are: The National Gallery of Scotland The Royal Scottish Academy Building The Scottish National Portrait Gallery The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art The Dean Gallery The Partner Galleries are: Duff House Paxton House See Also The Playfair Project ...

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