The insular tradition /

Title:

The insular tradition /

Format:

Book

Institution:

MassArt, Museum of Fine Arts

Contents:

Introduction / Robert T. Farrell -- The Bewcastle cross: some iconographic problems / Catherine E. Karkov -- Symbols of the passion or power? the iconography of the Rothbury cross-head / Jane Hawkes -- Worthy women on the Ruthwell cross: woman as sign in early Anglo-Saxon monasticism / Carol A. Farr -- Survival and revival in Insular art: some principles / James Lang -- King Oswald's wooden cross at Heavenfield in context / Douglas MacLean -- Daniel themes on the Irish high crosses / Shirley Alexander -- The tower cross at Kells / Roger Stalley -- Variations on an old theme: panelled zoomorphic ornament on Pictish sculpture at Nigg, Easter Ross, and St Andrew's Fife, and in the book of Kells / Isabel Henderson -- The Echternach lion: a leap of faith / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- Recent finds of insular enameled buckles / Susan Youngs -- Filigree animal ornament from Ireland and Scotland of the lat-seventh to ninth centuries / Niamh Whitfield -- The menagerie of the Derrynaflan Paten / Michael Ryan -- Innovation and conservatism in Irish metalwork of the Romanesque period / Raghnall O Floinn -- The insular tradition: an overview / Rosemary Cramp.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

MassArt Main
N6763 .I58 1997 – Available

MFA-DEP
N6763 .I58 1997 – Available