The course will look at the tantalising art of the Picts as expressed on symbol stones and wonderful silver. Pictish political identity was expressed through their rich repertoire of symbols and we shall meet the Pictish Beast and the enigmatic 'crescent and V-rod', which continue into the Christian era. The legacy of great artists and craftsmen, these works have their counterpart in the Books of Kells and Lindisfarne, as well as masterpieces of the Celtic jewellers' art and exotic tableware. Pictish sculpture is renowned for the naturalism of its animals and the mesmerising otherness of its early forms, which later were to be woven into the full repertoire of Insular art, as seen in Northumbria, Ireland and southern England. The Picts were neighbours of the Anglo-Saxons in Northumbria and spoke a language related to the Britons of the south known to Bede and the Romans.
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