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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
The Aberlemno I roadside symbol stone, Class I Pictish stone with Pictish symbols, showing (top to bottom) the serpent, the double disc and Z-rod and the mirror and comb. The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages. [1]
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.
Insular art is the name given to the common style that developed in Britain and Ireland after the conversion of the Picts and the cultural assimilation of Pictish culture into that of the Scots and Angles, [15] and which became highly influential in continental Europe, contributing to the development of Romanesque and Gothic styles. [16]
Insular art, or Hiberno-Saxon art, is the name given to the common style produced in Scotland, Britain and Anglo-Saxon England from the seventh century, with the combining of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon forms. [11] Surviving examples of Insular art are found in metalwork, carving, but mainly in illuminated manuscripts. In manuscripts surfaces are ...
The museum also has a collection of photographs of Pictish stones in Scotland. Fordoun Stone, in the vestibule of Fordoun parish church, Auchenblae there is a Class II 'Pictish' cross-slab which had been used as the base of the pulpit of the church of 1788. The face bears a Latin cross, part of a 'sea monster', a double-disc and Z-rod, a ...