The name Celts has held many different meanings from its first mention 2,500 years ago by the ancient Greeks to the modern interpretation associated with the distinctive cultures of the Celtic nations of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The ancient Celts were not a single people but rather disparate groups sharing cultural ideas across the continent and linked by their abstract art styles that over time adapted to the influences of the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions.
This course will look at the fascinating world of Celtic art, its style, development and revival, and the stunning objects made, including items of warfare and adornment, intricately-decorated jewellery and early medieval manuscripts.
Details
Course Organiser
Sarah Bowles
Tuesday 13 October
10.30am
Curating the Celts
Dr Julia Farley, Curator of the European Iron Age Collections, Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, The British Museum
12.00noon
Celtic Goddesses in Roman Britain: Spotlight on the Cotswold Area
Professor Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Dept of Archaeology, Cardiff University
1.00pm
Lunch
2.30pm
Visit to the exhibition Celts: Art and Identity at the British Museum
Tuesday 20 October
10.30am
Creating Celtic Identities after Rome
Susan Youngs, FSA, FSA.Scot
12.00noon
More like the Work of Fairies than of Human Beings : Aristocratic Brooches in the late Celtic Period
Dr Niamh Whitfield, FSA
1.00pm
Lunch
2.00pm
The Ardagh Chalice: The Hidden Meaning of its Ornament
Dr Niamh Whitfield, FSA
Tuesday 27 October,
10.30am
The Beauty of Ambiguity: Merging Image and Meaning in the Book of Kells
Dr Carol Farr, FSA, Independent Art Historian
12.00noon
Myth and Magic: Art of the Celtic Revival
Dr Frances Fowle, Reader in History of Art, University of Edinburgh, Senior Curator, Scottish National Gallery
1.00pm
A glass of wine to end the course