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Celtic art. The reverse side of a British bronze mirror, 50 BC – 50 AD, showing the spiral and trumpet decorative theme of the late "Insular" La Tène style. Muiredach's High Cross, Ireland, early 10th century. Celtic art is associated with the peoples known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to ...
The Basse Yutz Flagons are a pair of Iron Age ceremonial drinking vessels that date from the mid 5th century BCE. [1] Since their discovery in ill-documented circumstances in the 1920s and their subsequent purchase by the British Museum, [2] they have been described as "great masterpieces" that "combine most of the key features of early Celtic ...
Room 50, British Museum, London. Registration. 1857,0715.1. The Battersea Shield is one of the most significant pieces of ancient Celtic art found in Britain. It is a sheet bronze covering of a (now vanished) wooden shield decorated in La Tène style. The shield is on display in the British Museum, and a replica is housed in the Museum of London .
Celtic deities. Epona, the Celtic goddess of horses and riding, lacked a direct Roman equivalent, and is therefore one of the most persistent distinctly Celtic deities. This image comes from Germany, about 200 AD. Replica of the incomplete Pillar of the Boatmen, from Paris, with four deities, including the only depiction of Cernunnos to name ...
The ancient Celts venerated the spirits who inhabited local mountains, forests and springs. Certain animals were seen as messengers of the spirits or gods. [citation needed] In tribal territories, the ground and waters which received the dead were imbued with sanctity and revered by their living relatives. [ 3]: 24 Sanctuaries were sacred ...
Ancient Celtic metalwork (1 C, 38 P) P. Pictish art (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Celtic art" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
Celtic paganism, as practiced by the ancient Celts, is a descendant of Proto-Celtic paganism, itself derived from Proto-Indo-European paganism.Many deities in Celtic mythologies have cognates in other Indo-European mythologies, such as Celtic Brigantia with Roman Aurora, Vedic Ushas, and Norse Aurvandill; Welsh Arianrhod with Greek Selene, Baltic Mėnuo, and Slavic Myesyats; and Irish Danu ...
Description. Celtic round dogs.svg. English: Vector version of a design from the Book of Kells, fol. 29r. Traced outlines in black and white representing three intertwined dogs. Date. 9 March 2008. Source. Own work. Author.