High crosses (Sculpture) (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Allen, J. The high crosses of Ireland, 1992: p. 132 (The crosses in question are found in connection with ecclesiastical buildings in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland)

De Breffney, B. Ireland : a cultural encyclopaedia, 1983: High crosses (Prob. the most import. achievements in the entire hist. of Irish sculpture, these crossses are identifiable by a large stone circle intersecting the arms and the upright shaft; the progenitors of the Irish crosses were prob. the stone crosses erected in the late 7th cent.)

Richardson, H. An introd. to Irish high crosses, 1990: introd. (The high crosses which stud the Irish countryside are most typically Irish; the very shape of the Celtic or ringed cross silhouetted against the sky has come to be identified with Ireland; the crosses of Ireland & Britian are free-standing monuments of the early Middle ages; found in the north of England, Wales, Cornwall, and Scotland; the Irish crosses seldom bear figures; only the latest examples have an image of the Crucifixion in the round; they belong to a period streching from the 7th to the 12th cent.)

LC database, Oct. 10, 1996 (Celtic high cross; Irish high crosses; High crosses)

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