From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European ContextColum Hourihane Lying at Europe's remote western edge, Ireland long has been seen as having an artistic heritage that owes little to influences beyond its borders. This publication, the first to focus on Irish art from the eighth century AD to the end of the sixteenth century, challenges the idea that the best-known Irish monuments of that period-the high crosses, the Book of Kells, the Tara Brooch, the round towers-reflect isolated, insular traditions. Seventeen essays examine the iconography, history, and structure of these familiar works, as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces, and demonstrate that they do have a place in the main currents of European art. While this book reveals unexpected links between Ireland, Late-Antique Italy, the Byzantine Empire, and the Anglo-Saxons, its center is always the artistic culture of Ireland itself. It includes new research on the Sheela-na-gigs, often thought to be merely erotic sculptures; on the larger cultural meanings of the Tuam Market Cross and its nineteenth-century re-erection; and on late-medieval Irish stone crosses and metalwork. The emphasis on later monuments makes this one of the first volumes to deal with Irish art after the Norman invasion. The contributors are Cormac Bourke, Mildred Budny, Tessa Garton, Peter Harbison, Jane Hawkes, Colum Hourihane, Catherine E. Karkov, Heather King, Susanne McNab, Raghnall Floinn, Emmanuelle Pirotte, Roger Stalley, Kees Veelenturf, Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk, Niamh Whitfield, Maggie McEnchroe Williams, and Susan Youngs. |
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... Early Medieval Insular and Continental Manuscripts : Reasons , Functions , Efficiency 277 EMMANUELLE PIROTTE Goldsmiths ' Work in Ireland , 1200-1400 289 RAGHNALL Ó FLOINN Sheela - na - gigs and Other Unruly Women : Images of Land and ...
... Early Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain ( Belfast , 1995 ) . MILDRED BUDNY received her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of London for a study su- pervised by Sir David Wilson , " British Library Manuscript Royal 1 E.vi : The Anatomy ...
... early monastic site at Clonmacnois , where she has worked for over ten years . Her publica- tions include numerous excavation reports as well as articles on later medieval crosses , and she recently edited Clonmacnoise Studies , volume ...
... Early Christian fu- nerary art . Her book Early Medieval Bible Illumi- nation and the Ashburnham Pentateuch will be published by Cambridge University Press in the series Cambridge Studies in Codicology and Pa- laeography . NIAMH ...
... early eighth century ) , front view ( photo : Na- tional Museums of Scotland ) ... Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain [ Belfast , 1995 ] , fig . 4 ) ; ( B ) ... early seventh century ) . British Mu- seum , MLA 1866,3-20,1 ( photo : Trustees ...
Contents
Irish Crosses and Early Christian Sarcophagi | 9 |
Some Observations on the Irish Round Towers | 27 |
New Light on the Temptation Scene | 49 |
The Iconography of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace in NinthCentury Ireland | 61 |
Shades of Iconographical Ambiguity | 83 |
The Otherness of Irish Art in the Twelfth Century | 103 |
Some Recurring Themes in Irish Romanesque Sculpture | 121 |
The Role of Cultural Patriotism in the Study of Irish High Crosses | 141 |
An Irish Emblem of Status in Its European Context | 211 |
Fine Irish Metalwork from the Medway Kent England | 249 |
An Iconography of Identity? The CrossHead from Mayo Abbey | 261 |
Reasons Functions Efficiency | 277 |
Goldsmiths Work in Ireland 12001400 | 289 |
Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland | 313 |
Late Medieval Irish Crosses and Their European Background | 333 |
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Celtic Antecedents to the Treatment of the Human Figure in Early Irish Art | 161 |
Deciphering the Art of Interlace | 183 |
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