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The Fascinating World of Ancient Celtic Art
A survey of Celtic art from the Iron Age La Tene style to early medieval Insular work and modern revivals, and how scholars read it without Celtic texts.
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Celtic Art and Craft
Celtic style, knotwork, metalwork and illuminated books.
The Ancient Celtic Art of Illuminated Manuscripts: A Legacy of Craftsmanship
The Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels are early medieval Christian books made in the Celtic-tradition monasteries; here is how they were made and what they show.
The Ancient Celtic Art of Metalwork: A Legacy of Craftsmanship
How Celtic smiths cast, hammered, enamelled and gilded bronze, iron, silver and gold, from Iron Age workshops to early medieval Irish and Scottish sites.
The Mysterious Art of Ancient Celtic Metalwork
Gold torcs, brooches and the Gundestrup cauldron are the best-known Celtic metal objects; here is what they suggest about status, ritual and long-distance trade.
The Mysterious Celtic Art: A Story of Ancient Art and Symbolism
What spirals, triskeles, animals and severed heads in Celtic art may have meant, and why every proposed meaning is an inference rather than a documented fact.
The Mysterious Celtic Knotwork: A Story of Ancient Art and Symbolism
Celtic knotwork is mostly early medieval Insular interlace on gospel books and stone crosses; this article traces its origins and separates history from modern claims.
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