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National Gallery

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Confrontation »

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You could be forgiven some initial confusion with the National Gallery of Scotland’s first Confrontation. Barely in the door of the museum, an eye-catching sign directs an inquisitive viewer up the curving flight of stairs, each step adding to th...

Thu 13 May 2010 by Jennifer Owen | Read more »

Printmaker's Art »

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The initial difficulty with this exhibition is finding it: as overlooked as the medium itself, Printmaker’s Art is hidden downstairs amongst the Scottish Collection. If the National Gallery are aiming to draw attention to their collected prints o...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Kathryn Lloyd | Read more »

Sir Peter Lely: Artist and Collector »

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Upon entering the National Gallery, I was surprised to find that the Peter Lely exhibition was not housed in the main gallery, but rather downstairs in the Scottish Collection. Surely his highly-regarded post as leading court painter to Charles II and ...

Fri 05 Feb 2010 by Jeremy Parker | Read more »

The Sacred Made Real »

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In 17th century Spain, a powerhouse of Roman Catholicism, concern about the Protestant Reformation in Northern Europe prompted a desire to reconnect with the ordinary Catholic worshipper. An artistic counter-offensive was mounted, in which sculptors an...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Matthew Macaulay | Read more »

Impressionism & Scotland »

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The National Gallery's summer exhibition is always a large-scale blockbuster, and this year is no exception. The entirety of the upper galleries has been filled with Impressionist works and the sheer number of paintings on display is enough to occupy a...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Colleen Patterson | Read more »

Going, going...? »

Diana & Actaeon; 1556-59; National Gallery of Scotland

For over sixty years the National Galleries of Scotland has had the privilege of housing the Bridgewater Loan, arguably the finest private collection of Old Master paintings on loan to any museum or gallery in the world. But the honour of showing some ...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by John Leighton | Read more »

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