1854-2004: The Story of the National Gallery of Ireland

by Peter Somerville-Large

The National Gallery of Ireland was founded in 1854 and has since acquired an extraordinary collection of masterpieces by artists such as Caravaggio, Lanfranco, Poussin, Rubens, Uccello, Vel zquez, 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 expanded steadily, benefiting from the royalties to the works of George Bernard Shaw and from

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904288081
• ISBN13: 9781904288084
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 477 Pages
• Weight: 3.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 9.5"