About the museum
The story of the National Gallery Prague
The National Gallery Prague grew from the Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts, founded in 1796. Today it shows its collections in several historic buildings across the city.
It covers art from the Middle Ages to the present, including Dürer's Feast of the Rosary, a strong French collection and Czech modern art by Kupka and others.
The collection
The National Gallery Prague is the largest art collection in the Czech Republic. Its old master galleries include Dürer's Feast of the Rosary, painted in Venice in 1506 and later bought by Emperor Rudolf II, as well as works by Cranach, Rubens and El Greco.
Its French collection, bought largely by the Czechoslovak state in the 1920s, includes Rousseau, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso and Braque, and its modern galleries show Czech artists such as František Kupka and Emil Filla.
At ArtLogia you can order 49 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 37 artists led by Master of Vyšší Brod, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Gustav Klimt.
- paintings to order
- 49
- artists
- 37
- art movements
- 12
- years covered
- 1350–1913
The building
The collections are shown in several historic buildings, including the Baroque Sternberg Palace beside Prague Castle, the Schwarzenberg Palace with its sgraffito façade, the medieval Convent of St Agnes, and the functionalist Trade Fair Palace of 1928.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Old masters hang in the Sternberg Palace near Prague Castle, and modern art in the Trade Fair Palace.
![Prague Altarpiece [right panel, fragment]: Saint Christina by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1520), hand-painted oil painting reproduction on canvas](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Fpaintings%2Fprague-altarpiece-right-panel-fragment-saint-christina-lucas-cranach-t-oil-painting-reproduction.jpg&w=3840&q=75 "Prague Altarpiece [right panel, fragment]: Saint Christina – Lucas Cranach the Elder oil painting reproduction")
