“Celtic Art”
At the Roots of Europe?
DU1701 Periods of Art History I
Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D.
450842@mail.muni.cz
“Hallstatt” culture - 1200 – 500 BCE
Hallstatt A (1200 – 1050 BCE)
Hallstatt B (1050 – 800 BCE)
Hallstatt C (800 – 500 BCE)
Hallstatt D (620 – 450 BCE)
“La Tène” culture – ca. 450 BCE-1BCE
Warrior of Hirschlanden, sandstone, 6th
century BCE, H: 1,50 (broken feet)
Württembergisches Landesmuseum,
Stuttgart
Warrior of Glauberg, sandstone, 6th
century BCE, from grave 1
Museum Keltenwelt am Glauberg
Filottrano (Ancona) helmet,
from the necropolis, 4th century
BCE, bronze and iron / Museo
Nazionale delle Marche
Phalera from Manerbio (Brescia), 3rd century
BCE, silver / Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia
Waterloo Helmet, bronze, missing enamels,
150–50 BCE, found in the River Thames
British Museum, London
Battersea Shield, repoussé and engraved bronze, cloisonné
enamels, 350–50 BCE, found in the River Thames
British Museum, London
Wandsworth shield boss, copper-alloy, found
in the River Thames, 350–150 BCE
British Museum, London
Desborough mirror,
bronze, 50 BCE–50 CE
British Museum, London
Comb with incised decoration, bone, from
Langbank Crannog, Renfrewshire, 0–200 CE
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Head from Mšecké Žehrovice, marlstone, found at Viereckschanze,
Mšecké Žehrovice, north of Prague, c. 150–50 BCE
National Museum, Prague
Head of the so-called Dying
Gaul, Roman copy of a
Hellenistic original from around
230–220 BCE, made around the
2nd century CE
Musei capitolini, Rome
The Snettisham Great
Torc, found in Snettisham,
150 BC–50 BCE
British Museum, London