Colum Hourihane
Colum Hourihane is an Irish-born art historian, iconographer, and editor formerly of Princeton University, specializing in Medieval art and iconographic studies.[1] From 1997 to 2014, Hourihane was the director of the Index of Christian Art. He studied archeology at University College Cork and the National University of Ireland Galway (1977) before attaining a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1984,[2] after which he studied iconography in Gothic Irish art.[3]
Hourihane has published widely and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy[4] and fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[2] In 2012 he edited an edition of the "Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture" for Oxford University Press. Between 2008 and 2011 he was president of the International Center of Medieval Art.[3]
Selected publications
Books
- Patronage: Power and Agency in Medieval Art (ed.). Penn State University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9837-5374-2[5]
- Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art. Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-6911-3956-2
- Gothic Art in Ireland 1169-1550: Enduring Vitality . Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-3000-9435-0[6]
- Virtue and Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2000. ISBN 978-0-6910-5037-9
- From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Periods and its Context within Europe (ed.). Yale University Press, 1984
Journals
- "Insights and Interpretations: Studies in Celebration of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art". Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies", Volume 34, 2003
References
- ^ "Colum Hourihane". Princeton University. Retrieved 31 July 2022
- ^ a b "Dr Colum Hourihane’s book on Bantry through the Centuries selling at a fast pace". The Southern Star, 3 September 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2022
- ^ a b "Colum Hourihane: Oxford Biographies". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 31 July 2022
- ^ "Colum Hourihane, MA (NUI 1977), PhD (Lond 1983). Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 31 July 2022
- ^ Flora, Holly. "Reviewed Work: Patronage: Power and Agency in Medieval Art by Colum Hourihane". Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 67, No. 3, 2014. pp. 949–951. JSTOR 678790
- ^ Carville, Geraldine. "Reviewed Work: Gothic Art in Ireland, 1169-1550: Euduring Vitality". Speculum (University of Chicago Press), vol. 80, No. 2, April 2005. pp. 592–594. JSTOR 20463325