The pictures in the National Gallery are hung methodically, so far
as the wall-space and other circumstances will admit, in order to
illustrate the different schools of painting, and to facilitate their
historical study. Introductions to the several Foreign Schools of
Painting, thus arranged, will be found in the following pages together
with references to many of the chief painters in each school who are
represented in the Gallery. Introductory remarks on the British School
and British Painters will be found in Volume II.
At the present time (May 1912) the arrangement of the Gallery is in
a transitional state, as some of the Rooms are still in process of
reconstruction or rearrangement. When this work is finished, the
arrangement of the whole Gallery will, it is expected, be as shown
below:--
ARCHAIC GREEK PORTRAITS: North Vestibule.
ITALIAN SCHOOLS:--
_Early Tuscan_: North Vestibule.
_Florentine and Sienese_: Rooms I., II., V.
_Florentine (later)_: Room III.
_Milanese_: Room IV.
_Umbrian_: Room VI.
_Venetian_: Room VII.
_Venetian (later)_: Room IX.
_Paduan_: Room VIII.
_Venice, etc._: the Dome.
_Brescian and Bergamese_: Room XV.
_Bolognese_: Room XXV.
_Late Italian_: Room XXIII.