Isabella Evangelisti reports on Peter Pearson’s views of Dublin on exhibition at the James Joyce Centre in April, which capture his regard for the city in all its aspects.
Peter Pearson’s forthcoming exhibition takes place as part of the annual Dublin City Libraries event ‘One City, One Book’ which this year features James Joyce’s Dubliners. Although Pearson does not draw directly on Joycean influence in the works exhibited, the juxtaposition of the great literary chronicler of Dublin life with one of its foremost contemporary landscape painters is both timely and propitious. In their different media each celebrates Dublin in a way that is at once comic and elegiac.
Muirne Lydon reveals the original brilliance of Murillo’s Prodigal Son as degraded varnish and old restorations are painstakingly removed from the 17th-century series at the National Gallery of Ireland
Using a selection of germane quotations Rolf Loeber recalls his mentor, the late Maurice Craig; their literary exchange taking the form of a tete-a-tete.
Cosmopolitan yet connected to local issues, Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt played a prominent role in promoting Ireland’s cultural institutions at a pivotal time in their early history, writes Philip McEvansoneya