Ancient Celtic Coin Art

Ancient Celtic Coin Art
Author: Simon Lilly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Art, Celtic
ISBN: 9781904263654

In this pocket volume, Celtic coin artist and researcher Simon Lilly unveils the amazing lost world of early European art hidden in museums and private collections all over the world.

British Celtic Coins: Art Or Imitation?

British Celtic Coins: Art Or Imitation?
Author: Tim Wright
Publisher: Spink Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781912667987

The book aims to introduce pre-Roman British coins to a new audience, by making the subject more accessible, providing a collector lens, and demonstrating the beauty of these coins through images.

Celtic Coinage in Britain

Celtic Coinage in Britain
Author: Philip de Jersey
Publisher: Shire Publications
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2008-03-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780747803256

In the space of little more than a hundred years, from the Roman conquest of Gaul in the mid first century BC to the defeat of Boudicca in AD 61, Britain saw the final and arguably the most impressive phase in the development of Celtic coinage. The coins are not only beautiful and attractive in their own right, but also extraordinarily useful evidence in our attempts to understand Celtic society at this period. This book provides a general introduction to Celtic coinage in Britain. It analyses how and why the coins were made, describing the most significant types and many of the more obscure varieties, and explaining how the coins and the images they carry can reveal information on the political, economic and social life of the Celts. The book is fully illustrated with some of the best examples of Celtic coinage and provides details of museums where coins can be seen, as well as suggestions for more detailed reading.

Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece

Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
Author: Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107105714

This book offers insight into Greek conceptions of art, the artist, and artistic originality by examining artists' signatures in ancient Greece.

Celtic Improvisations

Celtic Improvisations
Author: John Hooker
Publisher: BAR International Series
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The Coriosolite tribe, who inhabited what is now Brittany, were prolific producers of coins and significant hoards have been found across Brittany, Normany and on the island of Jersey.

Rethinking Celtic Art

Rethinking Celtic Art
Author: Duncan Garrow
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1782978216

'Early Celtic art' - typified by the iconic shields, swords, torcs and chariot gear we can see in places such as the British Museum - has been studied in isolation from the rest of the evidence from the Iron Age. This book reintegrates the art with the archaeology, placing the finds in the context of our latest ideas about Iron Age and Romano-British society. The contributions move beyond the traditional concerns with artistic styles and continental links, to consider the material nature of objects, their social effects and their role in practices such as exchange and burial. The aesthetic impact of decorated metalwork, metal composition and manufacturing, dating and regional differences within Britain all receive coverage. The book gives us a new understanding of some of the most ornate and complex objects ever found in Britain, artefacts that condense and embody many histories.

Celtic Coinage

Celtic Coinage
Author: Philip de Jersey
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The papers collected in this volume were, with a couple of exceptions, presented at a conference on Celtic coinage held at the Ashmolean Museum and the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, on 6th - 7th December 2001. With seventeen speakers and an audience of ninety, this was by far the largest gathering devoted specifically to Celtic numismatics since the 1989 Oxford, and indeed must have been one of the largest meetings devoted to Celtic coinage ever to have taken place.