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TOP PRICED FINE
ART
For a list of the most valuable
works of art to be sold at auction:
Top 10 Most Expensive
Paintings
Top 20 Most Expensive
Paintings
IRISH AUCTION RECORDS
For a list of the top priced
works by Irish artists, see:
Most Expensive Irish Paintings.
WORLD FAMOUS GALLERIES
For information about the fine art
collections and exhibitions in the
top museums of Europe, see:
Hermitage Museum
Louvre Museum
Pinakothek (Alte/Neue)
Prado
Tate (Britain/Modern)
Uffizi Gallery.
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National
Museum of Ireland
In addition to its priceless Celtic
metalwork artifacts and illuminated
manuscripts, the Museum has a decorative arts division (Collins Barracks
site) which houses rare items of furniture, silver, ceramics and glassware,
money and weapons, as well as examples of folklife and costumes.
Library
of Trinity College Dublin
Established by Queen Elizabeth I in 1592
in the grounds of an Augustinian priory, most of the stylish buildings
were constructed during the 1759 renovations. Trinity College Library
accomodates more than 1 million books and manuscripts, including the priceless
illuminated gospel manuscripts - Book
of Kells and Book
of Durrow.
Gallery
of Photography
Ireland's foremost photographic venue hosts
numerous lens-based exhibitions involving many of the major artists and
names in contemporary photography. [See also, Dublin
Visual Arts]
Private Art Galleries
In addition to national visual
arts centres in Ireland like the National Gallery of Ireland (NMI),
the Hugh Lane Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), the Gallery
of Photography and the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin boasts a number
of magnificent private art galleries. These deal in a wide range of nineteenth
and twentieth century landscapes,
still-lifes, portraits,
genre paintings, sculpture
and photographs, as well as abstract works by modern and avant-garde Irish
and international artists. These galleries include: Access to Arts, Bad
Art Gallery, Canvas Gallery, Combridges Fine Arts Gallery, Cross Gallery,
Daffodil Art Gallery, Dalkey Arts Gallery, Green Gallery, Green On Red
Gallery, Hillsboro Fine Art, Jorgensen Fine Art, Kerlin Gallery, Leinster
Gallery, Lemon Street Art Gallery, Magil Fine Art Gallery, Molesworth
Gallery, Mother's Tankstation, Mulvany Bros., Oisin Art Gallery, Oriel
Gallery, Paul Kane Gallery, Rubicon Gallery, Solomon Gallery, Spiller
Art Gallery, Stone Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Yello Gallery.
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