Scottish National Gallery
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The National 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 Playf
Scottish National Gallery (2025)
Edinburgh Castle and National Gallery (c. 1865)
Twin porticoes at the main entrance with the original name inscribed on the frieze.
Playfair's ionic columns
The Three Graces (Canova)
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Antonio Canova's statue The Three Graces is a Neoclassical sculpture, in marble, of the mythological three Charites, daughters of Zeus – identified on some engravings of the statue as, from left to ri
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…Callisto (purchased jointly with the National Gallery, London). The Scottish National Gallery has also jointly acquired one of Canova's sculptures of The Three Graces with the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Scottish National Gallery has a notable collection of works by Scottish artists, including several landscapes…
Canova's first version, now in the Hermitage Museum
The Three Graces, alternate view, in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Three Graces: the Hermitage version