Tattoo Lexicon - by Dirk-Boris Rödel
Celtic art - we normally immediately think of intricate braided knot patterns, animal bodies intertwined like plaits and complex ornaments. But what we immediately think of when we hear the word "Celtic art" is actually only partly Celtic, because original Celtic art looks completely different.
The earliest Celtic art from the so-called Hallstatt period (from around 800 BC) and the subsequent Latène period (from around 450 BC) has nothing at all to do with these braided knot ornaments. In fact, Celtic art at that time was very similar to that of the neighboring Etruscans and was also strongly influenced by Greek antiquity and later by the Romans.
The stylistic proximity of early Celtic artworks in the British Isles, such as the famous Battersea Shield, immediately and inevitably leads to comparisons with the Art Nouveau style of the early 20th century. However, even this art style had nothing to do with the braided knot ornaments and plait-like ribbons.
What we today regard as "typically Celtic" only developed when Germanic Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Low Franks and Jutes penetrated the British Isles from the 5th century onwards and imported their own style of art, in which animal and mythical creatures intertwined to the point of abstraction played a major role.
In the course of the fusion of Celts and Germanic immigrants, a British version of the Germanic art style gradually emerged, which is known to us today above all from the richly decorated "Book of Kells", a gospel book, which was produced on the Scottish island of Iona in the eighth or ninth century and is now regarded as the epitome of Celtic art with its many images and ornaments - although the Celts no longer existed as an independent people at this time and had long since been absorbed into the Celtic-Romano-Germanic hybrid people of today's Britons.
Text: Dirk-Boris Rödel
Graphic: Jonas Bachmann
Tattoo Lexicon - by Dirk-Boris Rödel
Celtic art - we normally immediately think of intricate braided knot patterns, animal bodies intertwined like plaits and complex ornaments. But what we immediately think of when we hear the word "Celtic art" is actually only partly Celtic, because original Celtic art looks completely different.
The earliest Celtic art from the so-called Hallstatt period (from around 800 BC) and the subsequent Latène period (from around 450 BC) has nothing at all to do with these braided knot ornaments. In fact, Celtic art at that time was very similar to that of the neighboring Etruscans and was also strongly influenced by Greek antiquity and later by the Romans.
The stylistic proximity of early Celtic artworks in the British Isles, such as the famous Battersea Shield, immediately and inevitably leads to comparisons with the Art Nouveau style of the early 20th century. However, even this art style had nothing to do with the braided knot ornaments and plait-like ribbons.
What we today regard as "typically Celtic" only developed when Germanic Angles, Saxons, Frisians, Low Franks and Jutes penetrated the British Isles from the 5th century onwards and imported their own style of art, in which animal and mythical creatures intertwined to the point of abstraction played a major role.
In the course of the fusion of Celts and Germanic immigrants, a British version of the Germanic art style gradually emerged, which is known to us today above all from the richly decorated "Book of Kells", a gospel book, which was produced on the Scottish island of Iona in the eighth or ninth century and is now regarded as the epitome of Celtic art with its many images and ornaments - although the Celts no longer existed as an independent people at this time and had long since been absorbed into the Celtic-Romano-Germanic hybrid people of today's Britons.
Text: Dirk-Boris Rödel
Graphic: Jonas Bachmann
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