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The '''National Gallery in Prague''' ({{lang-cz|Národní galerie v Praze}}) is a state-owned art gallery in [[Prague]], which manages the largest collection of art in the [[Czech Republic]].
==History==
[[File:Praha Veletržní palác hala3.jpg|thumb|150px|Hall in Veletržní Palace]]
In 1995 a new gallery dedicated to modern art opened in the refurbished Veletržní Palác (Trade-fair Palace). It is one of the first and largest [[Functionalism (architecture)|functionalism]] building in Prague, built in 1925-1928. ==The collection==
The vast collection contains a large number of Czech and Slovak paintings and sculptures, including works by [[Alfons
The international collection includes numerous works by artists such as [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]], [[Auguste Rodin|Rodin]], [[Paul Gauguin|Gauguin]], [[Paul Cézanne|Cézanne]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]], [[Egon Schiele|Schiele]], [[Edvard Munch|Munch]], [[Joan Miró|Miró]]
Picasso, who has a spacious room to himself in the gallery, has two self-portraits there, and two of his
==Structure==
[[File:Slovane v pravlasti 81x61m.jpg|thumb|[[The Slav Epic]] from [[Alphonse Mucha]] (1912)]]
Old Masters
* Convent of St. Agnes ([[Old Town (Prague)|Old Town]]) - Art of the Middle Ages in Bohemia and Central Europe
* Šternberk Palace ([[Hradčany]]) - European Art from Antiquity to the end of the Baroque period
* Schwarzenberg palace (Hradčany) - Baroque in Bohemia
Modern and Contemporary Art▼
▲* [[St. George's Convent, Prague|St. George's Convent]] (Hradčany) - 19th-century art of Bohemia
▲Modern and Contemporary Art
* Veletržní Palace ([[Holešovice]]) - 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century art. Since 2012 the [[The Slav Epic]] has been on display here.
* [[House of the Black Madonna]] (Old Town) - Czech Cubism
Oriental Art
* Kinský
==See also==
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