Irish High Cross Exhibition
Start Date: 01 July 2010 End Date: 31 December 2010 Venue: National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History Time: Tue - Sat 10.00am - 5.00pm, Sun 2.00pm - 5.00pm, Closed Mon Price: Free Save to: MyDublin From July 1st at the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts & History, you can explore the Irish High Cross in a new exhibition, which brings together 6 plaster-of-Paris casts along with a selection of early Medieval treasures. You will be able to examine and compare how the High Crosses of early Christian Ireland were decorated with pictures, which taught biblical stories to the largely illiterate population.
The High Crosses are some of the greatest examples of how powerful religious communities supported and encouraged art in Early Christian Ireland. An Irish art form was developed, with artists working in metal, velum and wood as well as stone. This period is now looked on as The Golden Age of Irish art.
These copies are now in the care of the National Museum of Ireland. Originally on display In the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology on Kildare Street in the early part of the 20th Century, theses crosses represent some of the finest examples of Early Medieval sculpture from Ireland, which range in date from the ninth to the twelfth centuries A.D. They include two crosses from Ahenny, Co. Tipperary, two from Monasterboice, Co. Louth and single crosses from Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo and Dysart O’Dea, Co. Clare. For the very best day tours from Dublin check our web site Best day tours from Dublin
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