Description of the attraction
The National Gallery of Scotland is a national art gallery located in Edinburgh. The gallery building, located on the artificial Mound Hill in the city center, was designed by the architect William Henry Playfer and opened to the public in 1859. The neoclassical style in which the building is made is in perfect harmony with the purpose of the building. The gallery was built next to the Royal Scottish Academy of Sciences.
The collection of the National Gallery includes paintings by European masters from the Renaissance to the present. Also in the gallery are sculptures and a rich collection of graphics - more than 30,000 drawings from the early Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. The gallery has a research library, which contains 50,000 books, magazines and slides from 1300. until 1900. It also contains archival materials related to the history of the gallery, its collections, exhibitions.
The collection of the gallery includes paintings by such masters as Raphael, Botticelli, El Greco, Cezanne, Gauguin, Constable, Gainsborough and many others.
