Irish Art from Three Millennia - Thesaurus Hiberniae

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irish Art from Three Millennia - Thesaurus Hiberniae was an exhibition held in Berlin and Cologne in 1983 .

Irish Art from Three Millennia was an exhibition conceived in 1980 and initiated by the Irish government, which was shown in selected European cities in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. In Germany it was organized by the City of Cologne, the Roman-Germanic Museum and the Wallraf-Richartz Museum as well as the State Museums / Prussian Cultural Heritage . From February 26 to June 2, 1983 it was held in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, and from June 25 to October 23 of the same year in the special exhibition hall in the Museum Center Berlin-Dahlem . The Irish exhibition partners and lenders were the National Museum of Ireland , Trinity College in Dublin and the Royal Irish Academy . The exhibition was under the patronage of Irish President Patrick J. Hillery and German Federal President Karl Carstens .

More than 90 exhibits were shown, which date from the early Irish settlement in the Mesolithic (around 7000 BC) to the late Middle Ages (around 1500). The exhibits were mainly made of stone and metal, but artifacts made of wood, ceramic and bone are also represented. A special focus is on works made of precious metal.

In publisher Philipp von Zabern an accompanying catalog manual, which includes not only a catalog section also several essays by Irish authors to individual periods of Irish history appeared. The foreword was written by the director of the National Museum of Ireland , Antoine Brendán Ó Ríordáin , who was also the chairman of the Irish organizing committee for the exhibition.

literature

  • Irish art from three millennia. Thesaurus Hiberniae , von Zabern, Mainz 1983 ISBN 3-8053-0736-5