Download or read book Celtic and Early Medieval Designs from Britain for Artists and Craftspeople written by Eva Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celtic and Early Medieval Designs from Britain for Artists and Crafts People written by Eva Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celtic and Early Medieval Designs from Britain for Artists and Craftspeople written by Eva Wilson and published by Dover. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent design treasury reproduces over 400 historic designs that embellish objects, manuscripts, monuments and buildings created in Britain from the 5th to the 14th centuries. Ranging from simple to sophisticated, the designs have been meticulously translated into highly decorative copyright-free line drawings by illustrator Eva Wilson. Artists and craftspeople will find this book a fertile source of design inspiration from a decorative-arts tradition of dazzling virtuosity, reflecting the rich intermingling of Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Viking and other early aesthetic influences. Drawn chiefly from artifacts in the collections of various British museums and libraries, the selection includes: A gold buckle from the royal burial site at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, Spiral scroll patterns from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Decorated letters from 7th-century manuscripts, Borders from the Book of Durrow, Designs from stone sculpture of the Viking Age, Embroidered designs from the Bayeux Tapestry, Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis, 13th- and 14th-century patterned floor tiles, ... and much more. This important, extensively researched sourcebook explores the historical background of the designs, and presents the patterns and motifs arranged thematically, demonstrating in detail how similar elements combine to produce a design as intricate as a decorated initial or as simple as a filled square or ornamental border. Here, then, is a comprehensive treasury of authentic, ready-to-use motifs that will lend medieval flair and flavor to almost any art or crafts project.
Download or read book Celtic and Anglo Saxon Art written by Derek Hull and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of early medieval Celtic and Anglo-Saxon art is based on the display of motifs – key, interlacing, spiral and zoomorphic – in well-defined panels in simple and complex arrays. A study of the arrangement of the panels and the fine detail of the motifs indicates that the artists relied on geometric methods and principles first used by Egyptians and Greeks. This book reflects Derek Hull’s life-long interest in interpreting the exciting and exotic patterns revealed by scientific studies using light and electron microscopes. His interest in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon art started with a casual observation of an interlacing pattern on an early medieval stone cross set in a churchyard. There followed many years of exploration of art in metal, stone and vellum from all parts of the British Isles and Ireland, resulting in some fascinating discoveries. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Art reveals new and intriguing facets of these works that add to our appreciation of the beauty of the art and the skills of the artists. "This is a book for lovers of Celtic art, design and calligraphy, and will both delight and captivate... A must-have for both the cognoscenti and enthusiasts of Celtic religious art."—Cambria
Download or read book Celtic and Medieval Cross Stitch written by Dorothy Wood and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Medieval Designs from Britain written by Eva Wilson and published by British museum Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Museum pattern books, fully researched anthologies of designs for use in arts and crafts.
Download or read book Early Celtic Art written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For 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 centuries old when it was last traced in the pagan, prehistoric world, and the transmission of some of its modes and motifs over a further span of centuries into the Christian Middle Ages was an even later phenomenon. This volume presents the art of the prehistoric Celtic peoples, the first great contribution of the barbarians to European arts. It is an art produced in circumstances that the classical world and contemporary societiesunhesitatingly recognize as uncivilized. Its appearance, it has been said by N.K. Sandars in Prehistoric Art in Europe: "is perhaps one of the oddest and most unlikely things to have come out of a barbarian continent. Its peculiar refinement, delicacy, and equilibrium are not altogether what one would expect of men who, though courageous and not without honor even in the records of their enemies, were also savage, cruel and often disgusting; for the archaeological refuse, as well as the reports of Classical antiquity, agree in this verdict."This book comprises the first major exhibition of Early Celtic Art from its origins and beginnings to its aftermath, and was assembled by Stuart Piggott who taught later European prehistory to Honors students in Archaeolog"--Provided by publisher
Download or read book Celtic Art written by George Bain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1973-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and illustrates the construction principles used by the British and Irish schools of Celtic art
Download or read book Celtic and Old Norse Designs written by Courtney Davis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists, illustrators, designers, and craftspeople in search of exceptionally bold and inventive motifs will find them in this versatile treasury brimming with 125 royalty-free designs. Taken from authentic Celtic and Old Norse sources, they include an amazing array of birds, human figures, and mythological creatures, all ingeniously woven into an intricate network of spirals and interlacings. Meticulously adapted from artwork that graced ancient rune stones and religious symbols, furniture, manuscripts, bronze mirrors, sword hilts, cooking utensils, and other artifacts, the illustrations depict a crucifix; decorative creatures that adorned the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels; interwoven designs from stone crosses of Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall; and many other designs and motifs. Convenient and inexpensive, this collection offers inspiration and a wealth of immediately usable dramatic ornamentation rich in character and distinctive in content.
Download or read book Early Celtic Designs written by Ian Stead and published by British museum Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I00 pages of illustrations taken mainly from the artefacts of metal work and pottery.
Download or read book Design and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork written by Niamh Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland and Scotland . Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuries is extremely accomplished technically, and she has aimed at a thorough understanding of its manufacture. She has also been concerned to place Early Medieval Celtic design in its European context, and to analyse its relationship with Anglo-Saxon and continental work, as well as its debt to traditions which ultimately originated in the Classical world. Dr Whitfield has written about subjects as diverse as the origins of the gold used in early Medieval Ireland and Scotland, the development of animal ornament and geometrical principles of design. Her archival studies have succeeded in identifying the find-spot of the celebrated 'Tara' brooch and in documenting panels of ornament which are now missing. In addition, she has explored early Irish texts for attitudes to jewellery and clothing, considered the brooch as an emblem of status, looked at how brooches were worn, and whether descriptions of clothing and accessories in an early Irish saga provide an accurate description of contemporary finery.
Download or read book Celtic Designs from the British Museum written by Ian Mathieson Stead and published by Roberts Rinehart International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features 300 line drawings of patterns found in early Celtic art, including metalwork, pottery, jewelry, and weapons. Arranged chronologically, the drawings and accompanying text trace Celtic art from the 5th century to the 1st century B.C.
Download or read book Celtic Britain in the Early Middle Ages written by Kathleen Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celtic Art written by Ian Mathieson Stead and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully revised and updated edition of the successful Celtic Art, Ian Stead examines the craftsmen's techniques and follows the development of certain patterns, before finally describing a number of surviving examples of Celtic art.
Download or read book Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times written by John Romilly Allen and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celtic Art written by George Bain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume clearly demonstrates simple geometric techniques for making intricate knots, interlacements, spirals, Kellstype initials, human and animal figures in distinctive Celtic style. Features over 500 illustrations.
Download or read book Celtic Designs written by Penny Brown and published by Gill Books. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic book for artists and crafters looking for original, fresh designs and ideas. This treasury of Celtic line art includes 100 designs inspired by the knotwork, spirals, patterns, stylistic figures and animals found in ancient Celtic art, . The designs can be scanned, enlarged, reduced, or used same size and they can be adapted, or mixed with other images, allowing you to develop your own projects in innovative ways. Whether you are seeking inspiration for a new piece of work, researching an idea, or looking for different ways to approach a project, this book is a rich source of imagery, with beautiful illustrations on every page.
