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Article: The National Gallery isn't broken, so don't try to fix it
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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THE NATIONAL Gallery is quite unlike other similar museums and is
a collection of unique quality. Most national galleries are primarily
museums of the nation's art, but the British rooms at the National
Gallery, although of stunning quality, are not its raison d'etre. The
English were, from a very early period, enthusiastic buyers and
collectors of foreign painting, and the National Gallery is
principally a museum of European old masters.
One of superlative quality, too. Other museums of international
tendency, such as the Louvre or the Hermitage, may have much larger
collections; museums that principally document the nation's art, like
the Prado or the Uffizi, may cover a particular area ...