Irish High Crosses with the Figure Sculptures Explained

By Peter Harbison

Book Overview

This 111 page book is a guide for locating and interpreting the High Crosses of Ireland. The book provides background information on the creation of the High Crosses and includes many illustrations and maps. The author is an archeologist and art historian, and has written extensively on Ireland's stone heritage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0951782371
• ISBN13: 9780951782378
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Boyne Valley Honey Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Helpful companion for a different tour of Ireland.

This is a first-rate digest of Harbison's larger work, the definitive work on Irish High Crosses. My wife and I stumbled onto the book in a Kells bookstore. She was looking for examples of crosses featuring griffins -- and they are noted herein! Harbison maps the route to all the ancient crosses and gives a thumbnail sketch of iconography. Also a great gift to lovers of things Irish and arm-chair travelers. Thank you, Peter Harbison and artist Hilary Gilmore!