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The golden age of Irish art, the medieval achievement, 600-1200, Peter Harbison

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-359) and index

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The golden age of Irish art

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Peter Harbison

"The Golden Age of Irish Art is the first serious assessment for a generation, during which time painstaking research has added a wealth of new information and fresh insight. Surveying the art of Ireland chronologically, the book is illustrated with over 200 photographs, many in colour, of illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, architecture and sculpture, making this the most lavish as well as the most authoritative survey of the subject available."--BOOK JACKET

the medieval achievement, 600-1200

1. Prehistoric forebears -- 2. Early Christian rebirth -- 3. The seventh century -- 4. The eighth century-an apogee -- 5. Manuscripts of the eighth and early ninth centuries -- 6. Metalwork of around the year 800 -- 7. Stone high crosses of the ninth and tenth centuries -- 8. The early churches -- 9. Towards the turn of the millennium -- 10. The eleventh century and the rise of Dublin -- 11. Late eleventh-and twelfth-century metalwork -- 12. Twelfth-century churches and crosses