Bibliography

Robert D.
Stevick

6 publications between 1986 and 2017 indexed
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2017

article
Stevick, Robert D., “Morphogenesis of the Lough Kinale Book Shrine, front face”, in: Conor Newman, Mags Mannion, and Fiona Gavin (eds), Islands in a global context: proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Insular Art, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017. 198–206.

2013

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Stevick, Robert D., “When art was informed by mathematics”, in: Mary Kelly, and Charles Doherty (eds), Music and the stars: mathematics in medieval Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 129–141.

2004

article
Stevick, Robert D., “The ancestry of ‘Coherent Geometry’ in Insular designing”, Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland 134 (2004): 5–32.

2000

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Stevick, Robert D., “The coherent geometry of two Irish high crosses”, Peritia 14 (2000): 297–322.  
abstract:

Dividers and straight-edge had an obvious rôle in laying down the straight lines and circular arcs of Irish high crosses. Understanding of their rôle in the practical geometry that governs the forms of those crosses—the lengths of their structural lines and the distances between them—went missing a long time ago. The shared geometry of the Duleek Cross and the Tynan Island Cross make them specially instructive in recovering an understanding of the designs of high crosses, designs which share essential traits with the designs of illuminations in the early Insular gospel codices, and other fine artifacts from the same milieu.

abstract:

Dividers and straight-edge had an obvious rôle in laying down the straight lines and circular arcs of Irish high crosses. Understanding of their rôle in the practical geometry that governs the forms of those crosses—the lengths of their structural lines and the distances between them—went missing a long time ago. The shared geometry of the Duleek Cross and the Tynan Island Cross make them specially instructive in recovering an understanding of the designs of high crosses, designs which share essential traits with the designs of illuminations in the early Insular gospel codices, and other fine artifacts from the same milieu.

1999

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Stevick, Robert D., “The shape of the Durrow cross”, Peritia 13 (1999): 144–153.

1986

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Stevick, Robert D., “The Echternach Gospels’ evangelist-symbol pages: forms from the ‘two true measures of geometry’”, Peritia 5 (1986): 284–308.  
abstract:
Each of the rectilinear frames enclosing the evangelist symbols in the Echternach Gospels (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 9389) can be reconstructed easily, accurately and completely from a single dimension – its width – by using only the draughtsman’s straight-edge and dividers. In the derivational process for these designs can be recognized intellectually the commodulation that otherwise can be only partially intuited. The methods of the construction represent a geometrical inventiveness and depth of understanding of proportion that is paradigmatic for the finest art of early Insular framed crosses and evangelist symbols.
abstract:
Each of the rectilinear frames enclosing the evangelist symbols in the Echternach Gospels (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS lat. 9389) can be reconstructed easily, accurately and completely from a single dimension – its width – by using only the draughtsman’s straight-edge and dividers. In the derivational process for these designs can be recognized intellectually the commodulation that otherwise can be only partially intuited. The methods of the construction represent a geometrical inventiveness and depth of understanding of proportion that is paradigmatic for the finest art of early Insular framed crosses and evangelist symbols.