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miniVAN | Art History and Conservation

In the latest edition of the miniVAN, Production Editor Thomas Pool interviews Muirne Lydon, Paintings Conservator at the National Gallery of Ireland about her practice, as well as Dr Rachel Moss, Associate Professor in History of Art at Trinity College Dublin, and Dr John Gillis, Chief Manuscript Conservator at Trinity College Dublin, about the legacy of The Book of Kells, its conservation, and the new Book of Kells Experience!

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The miniVAN is the online magazine published by Visual Artists Ireland. With uniquely commissioned content, The miniVAN explores the visual arts with an accessible view of all aspects of careers and practice that make up our visual community.⁠

[Image 1] Left: Muirne Lydon, Installing Sarah Purser Show; image courtesy and copyright of the National Gallery of Ireland; Top Right: The Book of Kells, The portrait of Christ (folio 32v located opposite the Eight circle cross); image courtesy and copyright of The Board of Trinity College Dublin; Bottom Right: Ludovico Mazzolino, The Crossing of the Red Sea, 1521, oil on wood panel; image courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland, NGI.666, National Gallery of Ireland Collection, Creative Commons License.