The top 10 masterpieces of Scottish art

From nationalists like Alasdair Gray to honorary Scots like JMW Turner, here are the best works by the men and women who put the art in tartan

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The artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay created Little Sparta, Scotlands most ambitious permanent installation, as a modern meditation on the themes of 18th-century landscape gardening. Classical inscriptions and sculpture mingle with disturbing allusions to warfare and violence the lethal arrows of Apollo, Pan and Panzer tanks in this neo-pastoral masterpiece of conceptual art.

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