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Some highlights from the National Gallery of Ireland

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National Gallery of Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

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#OTD in 1874 – Irish painter, Frederic Burton, was appointed director of the National Gallery, London, and began an unprecedented programme of art collection.

#OTD in 1874 – Irish painter, Frederic Burton, was appointed director of the National Gallery, London, and began an unprecedented programme of art collection.

As Director of the National Gallery, London, Burton bought over 500 works, many of them masterpieces by Botticelli, Canaletto, van Dyck and Leonardo da Vinci, creating possibly the finest art collection in the world. Burton’s painting, ‘Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ was voted by the Irish public as Ireland’s favourite painting in 2012 from among ten works shortlisted by critics. The subject is…

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National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

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Gabriël Metsu (NL 1629–1667)

Man Writing a Letter (ca 1664)

Oil on panel (52.5 × 40 cm)

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The Shaw Room, National Gallery of Ireland

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Edouard Manet | In the Conservatory, 1878

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Grandma Moses 

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I made magnets with two of my favorite artist. Van Gogh and Keith Haring mash up. 😊👂💛🌻

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The MoMA. Part One

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Nikola Martinoski (1903-1973) Museum of contemporary art, Skopje

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Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje.

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The Gargoyle of Notre Dame overlooking Paris, 1910.

Photographs like this simply amaze me. A century ago captured in a single frame. Everyone in that moment is gone. A whole new set of humans exist now. It’s mind boggling. So many people we will never know and will never know us.

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Seated Man with a Cane (1918), Amedeo Modiglianioto

Photo: Brian Smith 

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Gustav Klimt

The Golden Knight (detail of Beethoven Frieze)

(via @lonequixote)

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Akhenaten, known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV (sometimes given its Greek form, Amenophis IV, and meaning “Amun Is Satisfied”) It was Akhenaten who first initiated the appearance of the god, Aten, by formulating a didactic name for him. Hence, in the early years of his reign, the sun god Re-Horakhty, traditionally depicted with a hawk’s head, became identical to Aten, who was again worshipped as a god, rather than as an object associated with the sun god. 18th dynasty, 1353 - 1336 BC.