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L'ART IRLANDAIS
Three Volume Set
by Francoise Henry
La Nuit des Temps 18, 19, 20
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TEXT IS IN FRENCH
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About this book:
Textual and visual material consisting mainly of notes, drawings and plans, documenting early Christian Irish art, its inspiration and the extent of its influence in Europe, in areas including architecture, sculpture, manuscripts, metalwork, ivory and textiles.
Numerous colored and black/white plates. Woven silk bookmarks.
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About the author:
Born in Paris, Francoise Henry studied at the Ecole du Louvre under the great celticist, Henri Hubert. Her first major publication Les Tumulus du Department de la Cote-d'Or was a comprehensive study of Iron Age burials. She studied Carolingian and medieval art with Emile Male and Henri Focillon and it was her interest in medieval art that led her to Ireland and University College Dublin. During a visit to Ireland in the late 1920s she saw the Ahenny Crosses in County Tipperary which perhaps more than anything else attracted her to the study of Irish art. In 1928 she published her first article on Irish art, "La chapelle de Cormac a Cashel".
Her career began in UCD as an exchange lecturer in the Department of French in 1934. By the 1940s she was lecturing in Archaeology and European Art, working on a study of Irish antiquities and accumulating a large collection of illustrations of Irish art, mainly in the form of photographic negatives and prints. Some years later Dr Henry became Director of Studies in Archaeology and the History of European Painting. The nucleus of what is now the History of Art Department in University College Dublin is to be found in the Purser-Griffith lecture series on European painting which she began in 1934.
She carried out a considerable amount of excavation work at Glendalough, at Iniskea off the Mayo coast, and elsewhere; but she is primarily renowned as a scholar of early Irish art. Her first important publication on the subject was La Sculpture Irlandaise in 1934. In 1940 she published a major work entitled Irish Art, a study combining manuscripts, sculpture and metalwork in brilliant synthesis.
The culmination of her publishing career was the three volume work in French, L'ART IRLANDAIS, Irish art in the early Christian period, during the Viking invasions, and in the Romanesque period.
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Publication Details:
- PUBLISHER: Zodiaque
- SIZE: Approx 6" x 9"
- NUMBER OF PAGES: Volume I - 305 plus notes, Volume II - 305 plus notes, Volume III - 305 plus notes
- PRINTING DATE: 1963 & 1964
- BINDING: Hardcover with colorful dust jackets, linen boards
- EDITION: First editions
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Condition:
- NEAR FINE books in NEAR FINE jackets (Grading system based on industry standard defined by AB Bookman, expanded by IOBA.) Click here for an explanation of grading terms. Your purchase will be cheerfully refunded if our subjective opinion of the book differs from your expectations.
- Former owner name inside front cover of Volume I
- Volume II has some light wrinkling on free front end paper and first few pages.
- Pages are crisp, clean and free of markings.
- Jackets have a bit of wear at spine ends.
- Covers are in excellent, as new condition.
- Overall, near-perfect copies of this impressive work.
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