Celtic Eras (Early Middle ages /Insular)

"Celtic Art In The Early Middle Ages"

"Celtic art in the Middle Ages was practiced by the Celtic speaking people of Ireland and Britain in the 800 year period from the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, to the establishment of Romanesque art in the 12th century."

Celtic tribes in Britain and Ireland

Largely in Ireland where Celtic  heritage was unbroken  living through the time where Romans where in control of Britain  the Romans never managed to get to Ireland in the 7th and 8th centuries This art mixed with Germanic traditions utilizing missionary contacts with the  Anglo- Saxons. At the end of the era Vikings added Scandinavian influences.

These Celtic missionaries traveled to Britain and with them the carried the tradition of manuscript illumination which in turn combined with the Anglo-Saxon metalworking knowledge. From then this art was carried back to Ireland  and they started calling it insular.

Carpet Page of the Lindisfarne Gospels, c. 698-721 CE

Due to Viking trading and raiding  silver became popular use as a medium in the 9th and 19th century, whit this broaches of exquisite quality and craftsmanship where created in Ireland.  Also in this time manuscripts where being less produces .Sculptures began to be more prominent such as the high cross, This reached its best in the 10th century and has left examples such as the Muiredach's Cross.

Muiredach's High Cross

Tara Brooch 

The influence of the vikings on Irish art was seen in the late 11th century when metal works began to imitate  Scandinavian styles.

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