Celtic Art of The Middle Ages

Celtic Art
Of
The Middle Ages

The style of ornamentation came about by medieval tribes in central Europe. Archaic examples date from around 450 BC: masks and brooches in bronze work with gradually more sophisticated geometric patterns, animal and floral motifs, and in time, realistic human- head designs. The most intricate jewelry, decorated swords, and scabbards. In Britain, Celtic craftsmanship flourished all over the Roman livelihood, producing work in gold and silver, shields of inlaid enamel, and bronze mirrors. Afterward, Christian monks tailored long-established designs to embellish religious manuscripts.
When we speak of ‘Celts’ today, we mean people who lived on the vastly western edges of Europe, in Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland and Brittany. The word comes from Keltoi; the term, which the Greek authors of the 5th century BC and later, gave the native people of Western Europe from Spain to Czechoslovakia. The Celts expanded into Britain, Northern It...