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The only woman ruler, mentioned in early Scottish history, is the Pictish Queen in 617, who summoned pirates to massacre Donnán and his companions on the island of Eigg. [ 53 ] The nature of kingship changed considerably during the centuries of Pictish history.
Viking art avoided naturalism, favouring stylised animal motifs to create its ornamental patterns. Ribbon-interlace was important and plant motifs became fashionable in the tenth and eleventh centuries. [21] Most Scottish artefacts come from 130 "pagan" burials in the north and west from the mid-ninth to the mid-tenth centuries. [22]
Pictish art vaguely refers to artistic objects produced in Scotland north of the River Forth between about AD 400 and 900, or similar objects produced in around this region. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
William Mustart Lockhart (1855–1941), artist mainly of Glasgow-area landscapes in water-colours; John Henry Lorimer (1856–1936), portraitist and genre painter, brother of architect Robert Lorimer; Robert Macaulay Stevenson (1854–1952), painter; Robert Walker Macbeth (1848–1910), painter, water-colourist and print-maker
Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art .
James Cowie RSA (16 May 1886 – 18 April 1956) was a Scottish painter and teacher. [1] The quality of his portrait paintings and his strong linear style made him among the most individual Scottish painters of the 1920s and 1930s. [2]
The Class I Dunnichen Stone, with Pictish symbols including the "double disc and Z-rod" at centre, and "mirror and comb" at the bottom.. The purpose and meaning of the stones are only slightly understood, and the various theories proposed for the early Class I symbol stones, those that are considered to mostly pre-date the spread of Christianity to the Picts, are essentially speculative.
183 artworks by or after Edward Atkinson Hornel at the Art UK site; Twenty-five images of his works, and details of books about the artist; Biographical entry, Gazetteer for Scotland '‘The Veriest Poem of Art in Nature’: E. A. Hornel’s Japanese Garden in the Scottish Borders' by Ysanne Holt Archived 20 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine