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Past Exhibitions

Explore a selection of exhibitions previously on view at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Canaletto and the Art of Venice

5 December 2018 - 24 March 2019
[In]Visible: Irish Women Artists from the Archives

19 July 2018 – 2 March 2019
Caravaggio 25 Years

14 November 2018 - 25 February 2019
Markievicz: Portraits and Propaganda

27 October 2018 – 10 February 2019

Turner: The Vaughan Bequest

1 - 31 January 2019
Zurich Portrait Prize 2018

6 October 2018 – 13 January 2019
Curious Creatures: Frans Post & Brazil

8 September - 9 December 2018
Roderic O'Conor and the Moderns. Between Paris and Pont Aven

18 July - 29 October 2018

Circus250: Art of the Show

9 June - 14 October 2018
Drawing Dublin

5 May - 26 August 2018
A-Z: Early Sources in Art History

1 March - 17 June 2018
Emil Nolde: Colour is Life

14 February - 10 June 2018

Guercino: Journey of a Masterpiece

10 March - 27 May 2018
Hennessy Portrait Prize 2017

25 November 2017 - 25 February 2018
Aftermath: The War Landscapes of William Orpen

11 November 2017 - 11 February 2018
Frederic William Burton: For the Love of Art

25 October 2017 - 14 January 2018

Installation view of the exhibition Margaret Clarke: An Independent Spirit in the National Gallery of Ireland, 2017.

'Good Morning Mister Turner'. Niall Naessens & J.M.W. Turner

1 - 31 January 2018
Frederic William Burton: For the Love of Art

25 October 2017 - 14 January 2018
Käthe Kollwitz: Life, Death, and War

6 September - 10 December 2017
Forgotten Faces

1 July - 30 October 2017

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting

17 June - 17 September 2017
Margaret Clarke: An Independent Spirit

13 May – 20 August 2017
Beyond Caravaggio

11 February - 14 May 2017
Eclectic Images

13 August - 7 December 2016

Leonardo da Vinci: ten drawings from the Royal Collection

4 May - 17 July 2016
James Stephens and the 1916 Rising

6 February - 5 June 2016
Pathos of Distance

2 December 2015 - 24 June 2016
Uniform: A collaboration with Jackie Nickerson

10 October 2015– 10 January 2016

Lines of Vision: Irish Writers at the National Gallery

8 October 2014 - 12 April 2015
Sean Scully at the National Gallery of Ireland

9 May – 20 September 2015
Passion and persuasion: Images of Baroque saints

11 February – 31 May 2015
From the Archives: The Story of the National Gallery

30 January – 14 December 2014

Shades of Grey: Painting without Colour

22 June - 29 September 2013
From Galway to Leenane: Perceptions of Landscape

15 June - 6 October 2013
The Sketchbooks of Jack B. Yeats (1897-1955)

2 February - 3 June 2013
New Portraits

14 December 2012 - 9 February 2013

Jack of All Trades

28 July - 2 December 2012
Gabriel Metsu: Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age

4 September - 5 December 2010
Edvard Munch: Prints

19 September– 6 December 2009
Thomas Roberts (1748-1777)

28 March - 28 June 2009

Vermeer, Fabritius & De Hooch: Three Masterpieces from Delft

14 February – 24 May 2009
Impressionist Interiors

10 May – 10 August 2008
Paintings from Poland: Symbolism to Modern Art (1880-1939)

17 October 2007 – 27 January 2008
Masquerade and Spectacle

18 July – 11 November 2007

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