Rory Breslin (Irish, born 1963) The Guinness Mask signed and numbered '2/5/BRESLIN' (to the top) bronze with a green patina and stainless steel 74cm (29 1/8in) high, including base Fußnoten The Guinness Mask is an interpretation of the keystone head - most likely a depiction of the agricultural deity Ceres, or the Greek equivalent Demeter - on the historic St. James Gate, which stands at the entrance to the Guinness brewery in Dublin. This enigmatic portrait of a youthful and confident woman, whose intense gaze evinces a determined character, is framed by waves of the ears of barley, symbolic of the making of ale. When Arthur Guinness initially leased St. James Gate in 1759, he brewed ale. It would be another ten years, on the 19th May 1769, before he exported his stout to England for the first time. The St. James arch was built adjacent to the site of the original St. James Gate, the city's western customs house which lay just outside the medieval city of Dublin and was demolished in 1734. The site was traditionally the start of a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and pilgrims from all over Ireland used to gather on this site to start the journey to Spain.
Rory Breslin (Irish, born 1963) The Guinness Mask signed and numbered '2/5/BRESLIN' (to the top) bronze with a green patina and stainless steel 74cm (29 1/8in) high, including base Fußnoten The Guinness Mask is an interpretation of the keystone head - most likely a depiction of the agricultural deity Ceres, or the Greek equivalent Demeter - on the historic St. James Gate, which stands at the entrance to the Guinness brewery in Dublin. This enigmatic portrait of a youthful and confident woman, whose intense gaze evinces a determined character, is framed by waves of the ears of barley, symbolic of the making of ale. When Arthur Guinness initially leased St. James Gate in 1759, he brewed ale. It would be another ten years, on the 19th May 1769, before he exported his stout to England for the first time. The St. James arch was built adjacent to the site of the original St. James Gate, the city's western customs house which lay just outside the medieval city of Dublin and was demolished in 1734. The site was traditionally the start of a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and pilgrims from all over Ireland used to gather on this site to start the journey to Spain.
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