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7 paź 2020 · Contains over four hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on the history, politics, religion, arts, society, and culture of Ireland, and includes nearly two hundred photos, etchings, and maps, and approximately 150 primary documents
Untouched by the wave of Upper Paleolithic cave painting, sculpture and carvings which swept Stone Age Europe (40,000-10,000 BCE), Ireland received its first visitors around 6,000 BCE, or slightly earlier.
The Irish Art Archive, held in the Centre for the Study of Irish Art, is searchable for the first time through Source. This collection holds an important and rich body of material documenting the history of Irish art.
18 maj 2018 · Focusing on the institutionalisation and mediation of the nineteenth century’s culture of art, this article considers the specific terms in which aesthetics and politics were already imbricated in writing on the visual arts in Ireland during the 1880s.
Irish topographical prints and drawings: an extensive collection displaying Ireland’s changing landscape over three centuries. Irish historical prints and drawings: illustrations, watercolours and engravings recording political, economic and social history from the 1660s onwards.
Analysis of the historical context reveals that the cultural environment in Ireland from the 1890s to the 1920s, the decades usually signaled by the “Revival,” saw multifarious, hydra-headed enterprises, sometimes conflicting, sometimes synergetic.
14 wrz 2018 · William Orpen was a prolific artist sent by Britain to the Western Front to paint pictures of soldiers and German prisoners of war as well as generals and politicians. These works were donated to the British Government and are now part of the Imperial War Museum.
