http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "National Galleries in £15m bid to build on Gardens" en Fri, 22 May 2026 06:26:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-184292 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:30:38 +0000 chdot 184292@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/national-gallery-revamp-to-inspire-new-look-gardens-1-3730808" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/national-gallery-revamp-to-inspire-new-look-gardens-1-3730808</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179306 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:31:18 +0000 chdot 179306@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/gallery-expansion-plan-hailed-by-city-leaders-1-3672662" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/gallery-expansion-plan-hailed-by-city-leaders-1-3672662</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179255 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:51:11 +0000 I were right about that saddle 179255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sounds like we need a CCE outing to the Mound....should I organise that?</p> <p>@Greenroofer</p> <p>Lady Agnew is indeed gorgeous. She should really be hung in a room of her own....</p> <p>@gembo</p> <p>My favourite on the Mound is <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/h/artist/hans-holbein-the-younger/object/an-allegory-of-the-old-and-new-testaments-ng-2407">this</a>. It is not of our age, but rewards close scrutiny on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. Who knew sin had fried eggs for eyes? Perhaps that is what Velasquez's old lady is preparing?</p> <p>@cc </p> <p>Balkanised? At least Serbia and Croatia acknowledge each other's existence. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179234 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:27:48 +0000 Fountainbridge 179234@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was rather aghast when I saw the Evening Snews headline. Appears it's basically to remove the grass bank and extend the building out within the same footprint.</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qFV4ke"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7286/16204257919_e0937111bc.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/qFV4ke">danny</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/130059894@N04/">fountainbridge</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179233 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:22:27 +0000 gembo 179233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oncologists good, was an exhibition of medical portraiture in portrait gallery not long ago.</p> <p>In NGS my favourite is the White drake by crawhall. Not on display but in basement it is easy to see its glory (they also used to sell it as a poster too). Maybe they will stick it back on the walls. Also Verdonk by Frans Hals is a stoater and yon wifie making a fried egg by Yer Spanish genius Diego Velasquez </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179230 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:16:07 +0000 Greenroofer 179230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS surely the best painting in the national collection is <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/object/NG 1656">Lady Agnew of Lochnaw</a>.</p> <p>Well <strong>I</strong> think it's the best, anyway...</p> <p>...and it seems Phil Jupitus has <a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/aboutus/blog/phill-jupitus-encounters-lady-agnew-of-lochnaw">rather similar reactions</a> to her that I do. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179215 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:56:01 +0000 cc 179215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow, I had no idea the organisation was so balkanised :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179214 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:55:18 +0000 wingpig 179214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Last five years, maybe? It was there in the ground floor gallery after the revamp... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179213 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:25:14 +0000 kaputnik 179213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>They recently showed one of the best paintings in the national collection - Ken Currie's Three Oncologists and it nearly killed them to do it. </p> <p></em><br /> Did I see that at the Portrait Gallery within the last year or so? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179208 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:44:22 +0000 I were right about that saddle 179208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cc</p> <p>That's the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The National Gallery of Scotland takes itself infinitely more seriously. They recently showed one of the best paintings in the national collection - Ken Currie's <em><a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/c/artist/ken-currie/object/three-oncologists-professor-rj-steele-professor-sir-alfred-cuschieri-and-professor-sir-david-p-lane-of-the-department-of-surgery-and-molecular-oncology-ninewells-hospital-dundee-pg-3296">Three Oncologists</a></em> and it nearly killed them to do it. </p> <p>I'll eat a bronze bebop hat if the Mound shows a Paolozzi. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179206 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:12:18 +0000 cc 179206@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The National Galleries has <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Gallery">a gallery full of Paolozzi works</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179203 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:33:33 +0000 I were right about that saddle 179203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"...works by the likes of Henry Raeburn, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Eduardo Paolozzi."</p> <p>If the National Gallery exhibits a Finlay I'll eat my hat. If it exhibits a Paolozzi I'll cast my hat in bronze and eat that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179199 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:20:18 +0000 wingpig 179199@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hope they leave a few metres at the south end in order to still be able to get a run-up to the bottom of the Playfair Steps. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179190 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:28:04 +0000 kaputnik 179190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Before anyone gets too excited, it's to build on a 5-m wide strip of grassy embankment in line with the current basement-level extension. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14289#post-179189 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:21:34 +0000 chdot 179189@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/national-galleries-in-15m-bid-to-build-on-gardens-1-3671836" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/national-galleries-in-15m-bid-to-build-on-gardens-1-3671836</a> </p>