Early Celtic Art: From Its Origins to Its Aftermath

Title: Early Celtic Art: From Its Origins to Its AftermathAuthor: Piggott, StuartPublisher: RoutledgeBinding: PaperbackPages: 77Dimensions: 9.96h x 6.99w x 0.24dProduct Weight: 0.45 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9780202361864For many, perhaps most, the title Early Celtic Art summons up images of Early Christian stone crosses in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or Cornwall; of Glendalough, lona or Tintagel; of the Ardagh Chalice or the Monymusk Reliquary; of the great illuminated gospels of Durrow or Lindisfame. But as Stuart Piggott notes, the consummate works of art produced under the aegis of the early churches in Britain or Ireland, in regions Celtic by tradition or language, have an ancestry behind them only partly Celtic.One strain in an eclectic style was borrowed from the ornament of the northern Germanic world, the classical Mediterranean, and even the Eastern churches. Early Celtic art, originating in the fifth century b.c. in Central Europe, was already seven or eight centurie