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Celtic Art Work
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Celtic Art Work is the combination of celtic art and cultures, which reflects the way Iron Age people interpreted the world around them. The celtic designs they used help us understand how they viewed themselves, likw the celtic letters used by celtic people. Celtic is a term applied to art in a diversity of celtic traditional styles that the Celtic tribes either traded with or were ramsacking at the time.
When most people think of celtic art work they think of design or abstract celtic art such as celtic knotwork or celtic tattoo designs, ornamented tools, weapons, or jewelry. For centuries, there has been a shortage of celtic culture.
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Celtic art work is ancient and by medieval Celtic peoples who spread over Europe in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. They produced sophisticated metalwork, stone and wood carving, and illuminated manuscripts, decorating these objects with a variety of geometrical, knotted, and spiral designs, stylized animals and human figures.
They took motifs from Italy, Greece and the east, and exploited repousse and inlay techniques, on bronze, silver and gold. The entire period is divided into two phases: early Celtic, made in Western Europe during the La Tene period (c. 450 B.C. to the first century A.D.), and later Celtic, made chiefly in the British Isles A.D. c. 100 to c. 650. Celtic art's final flowering occurred in Ireland during the early Middle Ages (A.D. 650 to 1150).
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