Comments on: The National Portrait Gallery http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/08/19/the-national-portrait-gallery/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:05:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/08/19/the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-13448 Charley Parker Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:27:40 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/08/19/the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-13448 Yeah, did I forget to say "<em>free</em> cultural Disneyland"? Wow. Another wonderful thing is that the National Gallery is one of the few major museums that regularly has drawings on display. They have a small gallery where they rotate selections out of their great collection of old master drawings. Yeah, did I forget to say “free cultural Disneyland”? Wow.

Another wonderful thing is that the National Gallery is one of the few major museums that regularly has drawings on display. They have a small gallery where they rotate selections out of their great collection of old master drawings.

]]> By: Jon Conkey http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/08/19/the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-12779 Jon Conkey Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:40:34 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2006/08/19/the-national-portrait-gallery/#comment-12779 My visit two months ago was an epiphany of sorts. After seeing fabulous Frans Hals, Titians, Velasquez', Vermeers and many other famous great artists in the nicely organized permanent collections, then standing in awe of the exquisite architecture of the National Gallery itself, I am really at a loss for words to describe it's vast greatness; not to mention it is absolutely free. JLC My visit two months ago was an epiphany of sorts. After seeing fabulous Frans Hals, Titians, Velasquez’, Vermeers and many other famous great artists in the nicely organized permanent collections, then standing in awe of the exquisite architecture of the National Gallery itself, I am really at a loss for words to describe it’s vast greatness; not to mention it is absolutely free. JLC

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