A collection of Scotland's and the world's leading artists will be shown at 45 exhibitions at this year's Edinburgh Art Festival.
The festival (EAF) and partners will present the shows across 35 venues.
The EAF will also include a new show at Inverleith House, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, which will see new commissions from Laura Aldridge, Bobby Niven and Oliver Osborne alongside "rarely seen archival material."
The show at the venue - the centre of great controversy when it was closed as a permanent contemporary art gallery - will "explore perceptions of the exotic and attitudes towards collecting, through rarely seen archival plans, paintings and photographs presented in specially commissioned contextual frameworks."
Other shows hosted by galleries and falling under the EAF umbrella include Jac Leirner at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Pablo Bronstein at Jupiter Artland, and the leading US artist Ed Ruscha at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Leading Scottish artists Douglas Gordon and Graham Fagen are to display work at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and winner of the 2016 Margaret Tait Prize, Kate Davis, at Stills.
There will be an overview of British Realist Painting at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and a celebration of the great landscape painters John Constable and William McTaggart at the Scottish National Gallery.
Works by Hanna Tuulikki and Fiona Mathison will be in an exhibition exploring the history and cultural identity of women expressed in their work in textile at Dovecot Gallery.
The City Art Centre will celebrate Edinburgh’s history through an A-Z tour of their collection.
A series of shows by "emerging Scottish artists" will include Ross Little at Collective, Jacob Kerray at Talbot Rice Gallery, Marco Giordano and Pester & Rossi at Jupiter Artland, and Charlotte Barker at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.
Sorcha Carey, director of Edinburgh Art Festival, said: "As Edinburgh celebrates 70 years of festival culture, our festival continues to bring together the city’s leading museums and galleries in a unique celebration of the very best of visual art.
"With exhibitions across the length and breadth of the city – the vast majority of which are free – Edinburgh Art Festival offers an unrivalled opportunity to immerse yourself in art drawn from across the world and the centuries, stretching from Caravaggio and Constable, by way of Turner Prize winners, to the most exciting recent graduates making art today.”
Councillor Richard Lewis, Edinburgh's Festivals and Events Champion, said: "Maintaining its title as the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art, the Edinburgh Art Festival will deliver a staggering programme celebrating the 70th anniversary year of the Festival City.
“The City of Edinburgh Council has championed the Edinburgh Art Festival since it was established and is delighted to continue its support this summer.
"This year, I’m especially excited to see the city’s collection drawn together at our superb City Art Centre.
"Edinburgh Alphabet: an ‘A-Z’ of the city’s collection will celebrate the history of the city and people through its vast collection of objects and art."
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