Painting 1600-1900 : Art and Architecture of Ireland / Volume Two / Nicola Figgis (Editor) / Royal Irish Academy.

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press 2014.Description: 2928 pagesISBN:

9780300179200
0300179243

Other title:

Art and architecture of Ireland . 5 vols. Andrew Carpenter

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DDC classification:

709.415 RIA

Contents:

Vol. 1 Medieval, c. 400-c. 1600 / Rachel Moss, ed.

Vol. 2 Painting, 1600-1900 / Nicola Figgis, ed.

Vol. 3 Sculpture, 1600-2000 / Paula Murphy, ed.

Vol. 4 Architecture, 1600-2000 / Rolf Loeber [and others], eds.

Vol. 5 Twentieth Century / Catherine Marshall [and others], eds.

Summary: This title provides an authoritative and fully illustrated account of the art and architecture of Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Each volume has its own expert editor or editorial team and covers a specific area or chronological period. More than 250 scholars from around the world, who represent a broad range of disciplines, contribute texts that range from thematic and general to articles on techniques and historical developments, biographical entries, bibliographies, lists of artists, and comprehensive indexes. Historical documentation combines with the best of current scholarship to make this the most comprehensive and ambitious undertaking of its kind. The volumes will explore all aspects of Irish art and architecture - from high crosses to installation art, from Georgian houses to illuminated manuscripts, from watercolours and sculptures to photographs, oil paintings, video art and tapestries. This monumental work provides new insight into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland's artistic and architectural heritage.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND is an authoritative and fully illustrated survey that encompasses the period from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. The five volumes explore all aspects of Irish art - from high crosses to installation art, from illuminated manuscripts to Georgian houses and Modernist churches, from tapestries and sculptures to oil paintings, photographs and video art. This monumental project provides new insights into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland's artistic and architectural heritage.

PAINTING 1600-1900
The volume is divided into two sections. The first contains thematic essays, ranging widely from exhibiting practices to the social history of Irish art, revealing how pictures were produced, acquired and traded in Ireland. The varied texts reflect the decision to be inclusive in determining 'Irishness' - the volume considers painters born in Ireland who spent their careers abroad, as well as visiting artists to Ireland. The second section is devoted to biographical entries, largely based on W.G. Strickland's biographies of artists (Dublin and London, 1913), but updated to include extensive recent research. More than 300 entries provide information on Irish painters of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a critical period that saw the development of easel painting, patronage, the exploration of antiquarianism and a search for the pictorial expression of national identity. The biographies offer a rich compendium of Irish experience; while some of the artists lived with worldly success and fame, others suffered disappointment and failure. All the entries are based on original research, much of it undertaken in hitherto unexplored archives. It seems appropriate given Ireland's economic, political and social history, that the story told by this volume is one of exodus, exchange and international endeavour.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with the Royal Irish Academy

Art institutions and art training in Ireland...Heraldic paining...Irish Minature painters...Landscape painting in Ireland...Irish Botanical Illustration...Banner painting...Politics and satire in Irish Painting....Irish Celtic revival...Strickland...Irish frames and frame makers...Artists biographies.

Vol. 1 Medieval, c. 400-c. 1600 / Rachel Moss, ed.

Vol. 2 Painting, 1600-1900 / Nicola Figgis, ed.

Vol. 3 Sculpture, 1600-2000 / Paula Murphy, ed.

Vol. 4 Architecture, 1600-2000 / Rolf Loeber [and others], eds.

Vol. 5 Twentieth Century / Catherine Marshall [and others], eds.

This title provides an authoritative and fully illustrated account of the art and architecture of Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Each volume has its own expert editor or editorial team and covers a specific area or chronological period. More than 250 scholars from around the world, who represent a broad range of disciplines, contribute texts that range from thematic and general to articles on techniques and historical developments, biographical entries, bibliographies, lists of artists, and comprehensive indexes. Historical documentation combines with the best of current scholarship to make this the most comprehensive and ambitious undertaking of its kind. The volumes will explore all aspects of Irish art and architecture - from high crosses to installation art, from Georgian houses to illuminated manuscripts, from watercolours and sculptures to photographs, oil paintings, video art and tapestries. This monumental work provides new insight into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland's artistic and architectural heritage.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nicola Figgis is a lecturer at the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College, Dublin, specialising in 17th-19th-century Irish painting and aspects of the Grand Tour. She is co-author, with Brendan Rooney, of Irish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, volume i (2002).