National Gallery in Prague - Salm Palace

The Salm Palace, or Salmovský palác, gives the National Gallery in Prague a very fitting home for its 19th-century art collection. Inside, the story runs from classicism to romanticism, so the building’s own age and the art it holds sit nicely side by side. The palace dates to 1796, when Prague’s nobility was shaping the city’s cultural life at the end of the 18th century, and that late-18th-century setting adds weight to the paintings and sculpture you find here today. The National Gallery in Prague, Národní galerie v Praze, operates the palace and uses it to present one of the clearest views of how Czech and Central European art moved away from strict classical order toward more emotion, drama, and individual expression. That shift is the real theme of the place: not just a collection, but a change in artistic thinking. …

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