Bibliography

Peter
Harbison

10 publications between 1979 and 2018 indexed

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2018

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Old Testament prefigurations of New Testament events on Irish high crosses

Harbison, Peter, “Old Testament prefigurations of New Testament events on Irish high crosses”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 118 C (2018): 123–139.

2015

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Tuotilo—St Gall’s uomo universale: reconsidering his artistic output

Harbison, Peter, “Tuotilo—St Gall’s uomo universale: reconsidering his artistic output”, in: Pádraic Moran, and Immo Warntjes (eds), Early medieval Ireland and Europe: chronology, contacts, scholarship. A Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 14, Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. 329–342.

abstract:

Two Carolingian ivory panels decorating the covers of the Evangelium Longum (St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 53) have been attributed to an all-round craftsman named Tuotilo, and are generally dated to around AD 900 because abbot Salomo is credited with having commissioned them during the mid-AD 890s. But, because the figures of Earth and Ocean carved on one of the panels are comparable to some counterparts on Crucifixion ivories from the lifetime of the Emperor Charles the Bald (AD 843-877), this paper suggests that the St Gall figures should be derived from them and from a contemporary manuscript, and ought possibly to be dated a decade or more earlier. At the same time, around AD 880, Tuotilo may also have been decorating the walls of the monastic church with frescoes containing New Testament scenes analogous to those found on Irish high crosses, both of which presumably go back to a common pattern-book source in an atelier of Charles the Bald. Tuotilo may well have been trained in the imperial workshops in the AD 870s, and could subsequently have conformed to a pan-European pattern of artists/craftsmen abandoning them upon the collapse of artistic patronage after the emperor’s death, and going to various other places including Ireland, but also possibly as far away as the court at Constantinople, where their iconography could have contributed to the illumination of the great 9th-century Byzantine manuscript of the Homilies of Gregory Nazianzen (Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Gr. 510).

abstract:

Two Carolingian ivory panels decorating the covers of the Evangelium Longum (St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 53) have been attributed to an all-round craftsman named Tuotilo, and are generally dated to around AD 900 because abbot Salomo is credited with having commissioned them during the mid-AD 890s. But, because the figures of Earth and Ocean carved on one of the panels are comparable to some counterparts on Crucifixion ivories from the lifetime of the Emperor Charles the Bald (AD 843-877), this paper suggests that the St Gall figures should be derived from them and from a contemporary manuscript, and ought possibly to be dated a decade or more earlier. At the same time, around AD 880, Tuotilo may also have been decorating the walls of the monastic church with frescoes containing New Testament scenes analogous to those found on Irish high crosses, both of which presumably go back to a common pattern-book source in an atelier of Charles the Bald. Tuotilo may well have been trained in the imperial workshops in the AD 870s, and could subsequently have conformed to a pan-European pattern of artists/craftsmen abandoning them upon the collapse of artistic patronage after the emperor’s death, and going to various other places including Ireland, but also possibly as far away as the court at Constantinople, where their iconography could have contributed to the illumination of the great 9th-century Byzantine manuscript of the Homilies of Gregory Nazianzen (Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Gr. 510).

2011

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Little-known drawings of Glendalough, c.1777–1850

Harbison, Peter, “Little-known drawings of Glendalough, c.1777–1850”, in: Charles Doherty, Linda Doran, and Mary Kelly (eds), Glendalough: City of God, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 302–313.

2006

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Austin Cooper’s letter on round towers of c.1790

Harbison, Peter, “Austin Cooper’s letter on round towers of c.1790”, in: Marion Meek (ed.), The modern traveller to our past: Festschrift in honour of Ann Hamlin, DPK, 2006. 157–162.

2005

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Early Irish monastic arts and the architecture of the Benedictines in Ireland

Harbison, Peter, “Early Irish monastic arts and the architecture of the Benedictines in Ireland”, in: Martin Browne, and Colmán Ó Clabaigh (eds), The Irish Benedictines, a history, Dublin: The Columba Press, 2005. 64–78.

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Bibliography

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, F. J. Byrne, and Peter Harbison, “Bibliography”, in: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), A new history of Ireland, vol. 1: Prehistoric and early Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 996–1147.

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The Benedictines in medieval and early modern Ireland

Harbison, Peter, and Colmán Ó Clabaigh, “The Benedictines in medieval and early modern Ireland”, in: Martin Browne, and Colmán Ó Clabaigh (eds), The Irish Benedictines, a history, Dublin: The Columba Press, 2005. 79–121.

1999

work

The Golden Age of Irish art: the medieval achievement 600–1200

Harbison, Peter, The Golden Age of Irish art: the medieval achievement 600–1200, London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.

1982

article

Early Irish churches

Harbison, Peter, “Early Irish churches”, in: Heinz Löwe (ed.), Die Iren und Europa im früheren Mittelalter, 2 vols, vol. 2, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1982. 618–628.

1979

article

The inscriptions on the Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnois, County Offaly

Harbison, Peter, “The inscriptions on the Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnois, County Offaly”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 79 C (1979): 177–188.

As honouree

Hourihane, Colum (ed.), Irish art historical studies in honour of Peter Harbison, Index of Christian Art, Occasional Papers, 7, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004..