In 1864 a gallery housing just 112 paintings, many on loan from the
National Gallery, London, opened to the public in Dublin. The space
was called the National Gallery of Ireland. Today the museum houses
the Irish national collection of Irish and European art, notable
not only for its extensive collection of Irish art but also for its
Italian baroque and Dutch masters paintings. For this anthology,
published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of
Ireland, fifty-six Irish writers have contributed a short story,
essay, or poem inspired by a work in the collection. The
interactions with the paintings are by turns profound, playful, and
insightful. The authors include the cream of contemporary Irish
literature, such as Colm Toibin, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, and
the late Seamus Heaney. The paintings they have selected are as
diverse as the reasons that prompted the choice and range from
works by old masters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, El Greco, and
Velazquez to pictures by more modern artists such as Claude Monet,
Pierre Bonnard, and Gabrielle Munter, as well as those by Irish
artists such as Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery, Gerard Dillon, and Paul
Henry. The book is organized alphabetically by writer and each text
is illustrated with the chosen work in color. Sean Rainbird,
Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, has contributed the
foreword."
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