Author: Hourihane, Colum
Title: From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context
Description: Princeton, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2001. Hardcover. Green casebound book with the title in gilt lettering on a painted plate down the spine. Pages: (5), vi-xx, (3), 4-356. Illustrated in black-and-white. Contents are as follows: Introduction /; Colum Hourihane --; Pilgrimage ad limina apostolorum in Rome: Irish crosses and early Christian sarcophagi /; Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk --; Sex, symbol, and myth: some observations on the Irish round towers /; Roger Stalley --; The Book of Kells: new light on the temptation scene /; Cormac Bourke --; De camino ignis: the iconography of the three children in the fiery furnace in ninth-century Ireland /; Colum Hourihane --; Irish high crosses and continental art: shades of iconographical ambiguity /; Kees Veelenturf --; The otherness of Irish art in the twelfth century /; Peter Harbison --; Masks and monsters: some recurring themes in Irish Romanesque sculpture /; Tessa Garton --; Constructing the market cross at Tuam: the role of cultural patriotism in the study of Irish high crosses /; Maggie McEnchroe Williams --; Celtic antecedents to the treatment of the human figure in early Irish art /; Susanne McNab --; Deciphering the art of interlace /; Mildred Budny --; The "Tara" brooch: an Irish emblem of status in its European context /; Niamh Whitfield --; "From Ireland coming": fine Irish metalwork from the Medway, Kent, England /; Susan Youngs --; An iconography of identity? : the cross-head from Mayo Abbey /; Jane Hawkes --; Ornament and script in early medieval insular and continental manuscripts: reasons, functions, efficiency /; Emmanuelle Pirotte --; Goldsmiths' work in Ireland, 1200-1400 /; Raghnall ó Floinn --; Sheela-na-gigs and other unruly women: images of land and gender in medieval Ireland /; Catherine E. Karkov --; Late medieval Irish crosses and their European background /; Heather King. VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on back pasted end page. Stamp on top text block.

Keywords: European Art ; Irish Art ; ; General Art - European


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