A concise history of Irish Art

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___ A Concise History of Irish Art HL Revised Edition m Bruce Arnold 179 plates 20 in color The continuing and complex evolution of Irish art through three millennia has drawn upon diverse European traditions including Celtic, AngloSaxon, Norman and Mediterranean sources. Many aspects of it parallel the unhappy history of the Irish people. Yet the richness of this art-the paintings and sculpture, the illuminated manuscripts, the metalwork, the architecture - telis a very different story. Artists emerge already familiar in other contexts. Many öf the more gifted Irish paintérs have been forced by circumstance, or persuaded by ambition, to seek a better fortune in London. Two great English narrative paintérs, William Mulready and Dániel Maclise/ were Irish artists; so were George Barret and the academicians James Barry and Nathaniel Hone. Eight years after this book's first publicatíon, much new information on the history of Irish art has been uncovered, notably on its fine flowering... Tovább

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___ A Concise History of Irish Art HL Revised Edition m Bruce Arnold 179 plates 20 in color The continuing and complex evolution of Irish art through three millennia has drawn upon diverse European traditions including Celtic, AngloSaxon, Norman and Mediterranean sources. Many aspects of it parallel the unhappy history of the Irish people. Yet the richness of this art-the paintings and sculpture, the illuminated manuscripts, the metalwork, the architecture - telis a very different story. Artists emerge already familiar in other contexts. Many öf the more gifted Irish paintérs have been forced by circumstance, or persuaded by ambition, to seek a better fortune in London. Two great English narrative paintérs, William Mulready and Dániel Maclise/ were Irish artists; so were George Barret and the academicians James Barry and Nathaniel Hone. Eight years after this book's first publicatíon, much new information on the history of Irish art has been uncovered, notably on its fine flowering in the eighteenth century. The revised edition, both in its text and illustrations, takes advantage of the insights thus provided. Bruce Arnold was born in London and educated at Kingham Hill School, Oxfordshire, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took a degree in Modern Languages. He is a journalist with the Irish Independent, and has written articles on different aspects of Irish art for a wide rangé of publications. Vissza