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essays examine the iconography, history, and structure of these familiar works, as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces, and demonstrate that they do have a place in the main currents of European art.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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... monuments of that period - the high crosses , the Book of Kells , the Tara brooch , the round towers - reflect isolated Insular tradi- bions . Seventeen essays examine the iconogra- dhy , history , and structure of these familiar works ...
... Monuments of Ireland , now in its third edition , has been a classic for over twenty - five years . JANE HAWKES received her Ph.D. from New- castle University in 1989 for a study on the icon- ography of Anglo - Saxon sculpture . She has ...
... Monuments of Scotland [ Edinburgh , 1904 ] , pt . 2 , " General Results , " 145 , figs . 201 , 202 ) 6. Cambridge , Corpus Christi College , Ms. 197B , Cambridge - London Gospels , f . 2r . Initial - page of John Gospel , In principio ...
... , Mayo Abbey FÁS Heritage Project ) 5. Iona , Cross of St. John , detail of lions over upper cross - arm ( photo : Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ) 6. Islay , Kildalton xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
... Monuments of Scotland ) 6. Islay , Kildalton cross , detail of cross - head with lions ( photo : Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ) EMMANUELLE PIROTTE " Ornament and Script in Early Medieval Insular and ...
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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