基本説明
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 the period reflect isolated, insular traditions.
Full Description
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essays examine the iconography, history, and structure of these familiar works, as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces, and demonstrate that they do have a place in the main currents of European art.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 O Floinn, Emmanuelle Pirotte, Roger Stalley, Kees Veelenturf, Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk, Niamh Whitfield, Maggie McEnchroe Williams, and Susan Youngs.
Contents
Preface vii Notes on Contributors viii List of Illustrations xi Abbreviations xix Introduction by Colum Hourihane 3 Pilgrimage ad Limina Apostolrum in Rome: Irish Crosses and Early Christian Sarcophagi by Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk 9 Sex, Symbol, and Myth: Some Observations on the Irish Round Towers by Roger Stalley 27 The Book of Kells: New Light on the Temptation Scene by Cormac Bourke 49 De Camino Ignis: The Iconography of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnance on Ninth-Century Ireland by Colum Hourihane 61 Irish High Crosses and Continental Art: Shades of Iconographical Ambiguilty by Kees Veelenturf 83 The Otherness of Irish Art in the Twelfth Century by Peter Harrison 103 Masks and Monsters: Some Recurring Themes in Irish Romanesque Sculpture by Tessa Garton 121 Constructing the Market Cross at Tuam: The Role of Cultural Patriotism in the Study of Irish High Crosses by Maggie McEnchroe 141 Celtic Antecedents to the Treatment of the Human Figure in Early Irish Art by Susanne McNar 161 Deciphering the Art of Interlace by Mildred Budny 183 The "Tara" Brooch: An Irish Emblem of Status in Its European Context by Niamh Whitfield 211 "From Ireland Coming": Fine Irish Metalwork fromthe Medway, Kent, England by Susan Youngs 249 An Iconography ofIndentity? The Cross-Head from Mayo Abbey by Jane Hawkes 261 Ornament and Script in Early Medieval Insular and Continental Manuscripts: reasons, Functions, Efficency by Emmanuelle Pirotte 277 Goldsmiths' Work in Ireland,1200-1400 by Raghnall O Floinn 289 Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland by Catherine E. Karkov 313 Late Medieval Irish Crosses and Their European Background by Heather King 333 Index 351
