The National Gallery off Scotland is the Musée of national art of Scotland which is located at Edinburgh. Built in a neo-classic style , it rises on the hill of The Mound, between two portions of the Princes Street Gardens. The building, designed by William Henry Playfair, opened his doors in 1859. It shelters the largest collection of Scotland of sculptures and European paintings energy of the Rebirth to the Post-impressionism.

Works of art of the museum

Principal tables

  • Vision after the Sermon , of Gauguin

  • old woman making fry eggs of Velazquez
  • Fábula , of Virgin El Greco
  • adoring the child Botticelli
  • Mountain Holy-Victoire , of Cézanne
  • Haystacks, Monet

Principal sculptures

  • Bust of Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo , the Bernin
  • the Three Graces , of Antonio Canova

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