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The National Gallery of Ireland, founded in 1854, has acquired an extraordinary collection of masterpieces, by Caravaggio, Poussin, Rubens, Uccello, Velázquez and Vermeer, as well as British artists such as Gainsborough and Reynolds and the leading lights of Irish art, from James Barry to Jack Yeats. The Gallery has benefited from generous donations by such figures as George Bernard Shaw Lane (whose happy memories of time passed there in his youth led him to bequeath the Gallery his royalties) and wealthy patrons such as Milltown, Beit, Mahon and Chester Beatty. Here the story of the Gallery, with all its tribulations and struggles, good and bad luck, good and bad judgement, and all its numerous personalities, is told for the first time. Though it also reveals the width and depth of the collection, and is splendidly illustrated with colour plates, this book is far from being a mere list of acquisitions, revealing much about the rebirth of a nation and changing attitudes to art over time. Peter Somerville-Large is a distinguished author and journalist, whose works include Dublin: A Social History and The Irish Country House: A Social History. ISBN 1 904288 08 1 245 x 170 mm, hardback 480 pages, 116 colour illustrations

Table of Contents:

Foreword

1. Opening Day

2. Moves to Create a Gallery for Ireland

3. Fixing a Site on Leinster Lawn

4. From Dargan Committee to Irish Institution

5. The Parliamentary Bill and Marsh's Library Saga

6. Battle of Five Architects

7. Initial Acquistions and Aducci Pictures

8. Preparations for the Opening

9. Developments during the 1860s

10. Everyday Business and the Loss of the First Registrar

11. The Indispensable Lord Powerscourt

12. Opening a National Portrait Gallery

13. Running Affairs in the 1890s

14. The Milltown Gift

15. Bequests and Bargains

16. Modern Art for Dublin

17. A Whirlwind Year

18. Events to the Easter Rising

19. The Gallery at War

20. Hugh Lane's Legacy

21. Adapting to the New State

22. 'One of the Great Collections'

23. Optimism and Despair

24. Chester Beatty and Great Expectations

25. More Gifts from Bernard Shaw

26. The Sweeney Bequest and Beit Gift

27. Full Circle: Building and Acquisitions

28. The Millennium Wing

NGI Bibliography

Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781904288084
  • Publisher: National Gallery of Ireland
  • Publisher Imprint: National Gallery of Ireland
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: The Story of the National Gallery of Ireland
  • ISBN-10: 1904288081
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jan 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 178 mm


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