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

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Book
Language
English
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Princeton, N.J. : Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, ©2001.
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xx, 356 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

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      Subject(s)
      Library of Congress genre(s)
      Series
      • Occasional papers (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art) ; 4. [More in this series]
      • Index of Christian art occasional papers ; 4
      Notes
      Majority of papers presented at a conference organized by the Index of Christian Art at Princeton Univ. on Mar. 5-6, 1999.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • 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.
      ISBN
      • 0691088241 ((alk. paper))
      • 9780691088242 ((alk. paper))
      • 069108825X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780691088259 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      00062375
      OCLC
      44811690
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