Marking the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, 56 Irish writers have contributed short stories, essays, and poems inspired by pictures in the collection. By turns profound, playful, and insightful, the authors include Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, John Boyne, Colum McCann, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney. Shown in 60 color illustrations, the pictures that the writers have selected are intriguingly diverse, ranging from old master paintings by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, El Greco, and Velázquez to works by Impressionists Claude Monet and Pierre Bonnard.