ON Saturday, the new £39 million redevelopment of the National Gallery of Scotland’s Scottish Galleries opened to the public.
The National Galleries of Scotland opened its doors and welcomed the public to the new Scottish Galleries yesterday
No longer cramped in a relatively inaccessible basement space – which was very difficult to move pictures into or out of – the 12 new open-plan gallery spaces place a fresh emphasis on accessibility, fluidity and the national story of our art, showing “the world’s greatest collection of Scottish art with real pride and ambition”, in the words of director-general Sir John Leighton, whose 18 years at the helm of the National Galleries have culminated in this project.
There are approaching 150 paintings in the new space, many of them almost completely fresh and new. Chronology intersects with theme, and depictions of Edinburgh are balanced against the development of Scottish landscape painting, such as James Norie and the Anglo-Dutch Jan Griffier II’s intriguing and magnificent Taymouth Castle which illustrates the early appearance of elements of Romantic landscape painting in Scotland as well as the influence of Dutch style on Scottish art.
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