Sunday, August 25, 2013

Scottish National Gallery

We had walked past the Scottish National Gallery a couple dozen times over the years. Never again. It is a marvelous collection, mostly Scottish art, but also a very impressive assemblage of European art from the Middle Ages to the present. We stuck mostly to the European collection.
Beautiful Botticelli Virgin and Child


















Leonardo's Madonna of the Yarnwinder


















Younger Holbein's Allegories of Old and New Testaments














Never miss a Cranach


















Vasari's Adoration of the Magi


















Claude's Apollo and Muses (but mostly the landscape)














The Greek's Saviour of the World


















Several Poussins, including a room full of large scenes
from the life of Jesus; here, something utterly unique: a
Last Supper where they're all on triclinia, Roman-style; not
very likely, I'd guess, but then Poussin spent nearly all his
artistic life in Rome, painting classical subjects


















Rubens' Herod's Feast














Vermeer, Christ in the House of Mary and
Martha



















Steen's School for Girls and Boys














Rembrandt's Not a Self-Portrait


















A matrimonial pair of Hals (male not shown)


















Nice Watteau genre


















A couple of later Van Goghs














Frank Edwin Church's Niagara Falls; then,
on loan, a room of paintings from his world
travels