From Ireland coming : Irish art from the early Christian to the late Gothic period and its European context / edited by Colum Hourihane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hourihane, Colum, 1955-

Series:

Occasional papers (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art) ; 4.

Index of Christian art occasional papers ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Irish--Foreign influences.

Art, Irish.

Art, Medieval--Ireland--Foreign influences.

Art, Medieval.

Christian art and symbolism--Ireland--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Ireland.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xx, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, [2001]

Summary:

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 A.D. 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essays examine the iconography, history, and structure of these familiar works, as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces, and demonstrate that they do have a place in the main currents of European art.

Contents:

Pilgrimage ad Limina Apostolorum in Rome: Irish Crosses and Early Christian Sarcophagi / Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk 9

Sex, Symbol, and Myth: Some Observations on the Irish Round Towers / Roger Stalley 27

The Book of Kells: New Light on the Temptation Scene / Cormac Bourke 49

De Camino Ignis: The Iconography of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace in Ninth-Century Ireland / Colum Hourihane 61

Irish High Crosses and Continental Art: Shades of Iconographical Ambiguity / Kees Veelenturf 83

The Otherness of Irish Art in the Twelfth Century / PEter Harbison 103

Masks and Monsters: Some Recurring Themes in Irish Romanesque Sculpture / Tessa Garton 121

Constructing the Market Cross at Tuam: The Role of Cultural Patriotism in the Study of Irish High Crosses / Maggie McEnchroe Williams 141

Celtic Antecedents to the Treatment of the Human Figure in Early Irish Art / Susanne McNab 161

Deciphering the Art of Interlace / Mildred Budny 183

The "Tara" Brooch: An Irish Emblem of Status in Its European Context / Niamh Whitfield 211

"From Ireland Coming": Fine Irish Metalwork from the Medway, Kent, England / Susan Youngs 249

An Iconography of Identity? The Cross-Head from Mayo Abbey / Jane Hawkes 261

Ornament and Script in Early Medieval Insular and Continental Manuscripts: Reasons, Functions, Efficiency / Emmanuelle Pirotte 277

Goldsmiths' Work in Ireland, 1200-1400 / Raghnall O Floinn 289

Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland / Catherine E. Karkov 313

Late Medieval Irish Crosses and Their European Background / Heather King 333.

Notes:

Majority of papers presented at a conference organized by the Index of Christian Art at Princeton Univ. on Mar. 5-6, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691088241

069108825X

OCLC:

44811690