Scottish National Gallery
The Scottish National Gallery (until 2012 National Gallery of Scotland ) is a picture gallery and museum in Edinburgh , Scotland . The ornate neo-classical building stands next to the Royal Scottish Academy Building on The Mound between the two parts of Princes Street Gardens .
The building, designed by William Henry Playfair , has served as a museum building since its completion. The museum opened in 1859 . Like the Royal Scottish Academy Building , it was redesigned by William Thomas Oldrieve in 1912 . Since reopening, the focus has been on building a permanent national collection of Scottish and European art.
The underground connection between the two buildings, the Playfair Project , opened on August 4, 2004. The square between the museums has a view of Princes Street and Edinburgh Castle .
The collection includes paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures from the 14th to the 19th centuries. The works on display include Christ with Mary and Martha by Jan Vermeer , the two main works by Tizian , Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon , the second series of the Seven Sacraments by Nicolas Poussin and Heidelberg with a rainbow by William Turner (around 1841 ).
The National Gallery also has the largest collection of Scottish art from the 17th to the 19th centuries, including masterpieces by Ramsay , Raeburn and Wilkie .
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- ^ Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland: A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland 2000 . P. 7.
Coordinates: 55 ° 57 ′ 3.3 " N , 3 ° 11 ′ 44.4" W.