Galerie nationale d'Écosse

La Galerie nationale d'Écosse (en anglais : Scottish National Gallery ; en scots : Scots Naitional Gailerie et en gaélique écossais : Gailearaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) est le musée d'art national d'Écosse, situé à Édimbourg et regroupant les collections de peinture et de sculpture. Comme pour les autres musées nationaux britanniques, l'entrée est gratuite.

1. Historique

Construit dans un style néoclassique, il s'élève sur la colline de The Mound (en), entre deux portions des Princes Street Gardens. Le bâtiment, conçu par William Henry Playfair, ouvrit ses portes en 1859. Il abrite la plus grande collection d'Écosse de sculptures et de peintures européennes allant de la Renaissance au Post-Impressionnisme.

1. Œuvres d'art du musée


1. = Principaux tableaux =

Sandro Botticelli : La Vierge adorant l'Enfant Jésus endormi Paul Cézanne : Montagne Sainte-Victoire John Constable : La Vallée de Dedham Edgar Degas : Portrait de Diego Martelli Eugène Delacroix : Arabes jouant aux échecs Le Dominiquin : L'Adoration des bergers William Etty : Le Combat : une femme implorant pour le vaincu Thomas Gainsborough : Portrait de Mrs Mary Graham Paul Gauguin : Vision après le Sermon François Gérard : Portrait de Mary Nisbet Hugo van der Goes : Retable de la Trinité Francisco de Goya : El médico Le Greco : Fábula Saint Jérôme en pénitence Bénédiction du Christ Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Jeune Fille qui pleure son oiseau mort Edwin Landseer : The Monarch of the Glen Claude Monet : Meules de foin Peupliers sur l'Epte Giovanni Battista Pittoni : Saint Jérôme et Pierre d'Alcantara Nicolas Poussin : Les Sept Sacrements Henry Raeburn : The Skating Minister Raphaël : Madone Bridgewater La Sainte Famille au palmier Madonna del Passeggio Rembrandt : Jeune Femme au lit Autoportrait à 51 ans Joshua Reynolds : The Ladies Waldegrave Auguste Renoir : La Promenade Rubens : Le Festin d'Hérode Titien : Les Trois Âges de l'homme Diane et Actéon (tableau acheté en 2009 conjointement avec la National Gallery de Londres, et présenté par roulement) Vénus anadyomène Diane et Callisto John Singer Sargent : Portrait de Lady Agnew of Lochnaw Diego Vélasquez : Vieille femme faisant frire des œufs Johannes Vermeer : Le Christ dans la maison de Marthe et Marie Paul Véronèse : Mars et Vénus avec Cupidon et un chien Antoine Watteau : Les Fêtes vénitiennes Le Dénicheur de moineaux

1. = Principales sculptures =

Buste de Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, du Bernin Les Trois Grâces, d'Antonio Canova (propriété conjointe avec le Victoria & Albert Museum de Londres)

1. = Quelques artistes =

Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) : Plougastel, pêcheuses de crevettes (1871). Andrew Geddes (1783–1844) Alexander Keirincx : Seton Palace and the Forth Estuary (1639), Falkland Palace and the Howe of Fife (1639). Horatio McCulloch (1806-1867) William York Macgregor (1855-1923) William MacTaggart (en) (1903-1981) Lorenzo Monaco Eduardo Paolozzi John Phillip (1817–1867) Henry Raeburn Allan Ramsay Joshua Reynolds Robert Scott Lauder (1803–1869) Diego Velázquez Paolo Veronese Antoine Watteau David Wilkie William Henry Worthington (ca. 1795 - ap. 1839)

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1. Notes et références


1. Annexes


1. = Articles connexes =

Liste de musées au Royaume-Uni Galeries nationales d'Écosse

1. = Liens externes =

(en) Site officiel Ressources relatives aux beaux-arts : Art UK (lieux d'art) Google Arts & Culture Royal Academy of Arts Union List of Artist Names Ressource relative à l'architecture : Structurae

Les Galeries nationales d'Écosse sur l'Institut culturel de Google Portail des musées Portail des arts Portail du néo-classicisme Portail de l’Écosse

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Scottish National Gallery

The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. The gallery houses Scotland's national collection of fine art, spanning Scottish and international art from the beginning of the Renaissance up to the start of the 20th century. The National is run by National Galleries Scotland, a public body that also owns the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Because of its architectural similarity, the National is frequently confused by visitors with the neighbouring Royal Scottish Academy Building (RSA), a separate institution which works closely with the National.

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The Mound

The Mound is an artificial slope and road in central Edinburgh, Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's New and Old Towns. It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch, which was drained in 1765 and forms today's Princes Street Gardens.

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Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo

The Bust of Carlo Antonio del Pozzo is a sculptural portrait by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. It is in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Carlo Antonio was the Archbishop of Pisa and the uncle of the noted seventeenth-century collector, Cassiano del Pozzo, who commissioned Bernini to create the sculpture. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Scotland in 1986, at a cost of 3m British Pounds, although the value at the time was said to be much higher (around 7.5m pounds). It had previously been in the British stately home of Castle Howard, since 1715.

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Royal Scottish Academy Building

The Royal Scottish Academy building, the home of the Royal Scottish Academy, is an art museum in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated at the junction of The Mound and Princes Street in the centre of the city. It was built by William Henry Playfair in 1822–6. Along with the adjacent National Gallery of Scotland, their neo-classical design helped to transform Edinburgh into the cityscape known as "the Athens of the North". Today the structure is a Category A listed building.

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Royal Scottish Academy

The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country's national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the Royal Scottish Academy on being granted a royal charter in 1838. The RSA maintains a unique position in the country as an independently funded institution led by eminent artists and architects to promote and support the creation, understanding, and enjoyment of visual arts through exhibitions and related educational events.

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