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  2. Pictish Beast - Wikipedia

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    The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland. The great majority of surviving examples are on Pictish stones. The Pictish Beast accounts for about 40% of all Pictish animal depictions, and so was likely of great ...

  3. Picts - Wikipedia

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    The early Picts are associated with piracy and raiding along the coasts of Roman Britain. Even in the Late Middle Ages, the line between traders and pirates was unclear, so that Pictish pirates were probably merchants on other occasions. It is generally assumed that trade collapsed with the Roman Empire, but this is to overstate the case.

  4. Category:Pictish art - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Line art - Wikipedia

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    Art Nouveau line art Line art emphasizes form and drawings , of several (few) constant widths (as in technical illustrations ), or of freely varying widths (as in brush work or engraving ). Line art may tend towards realism (as in much of Gustave Doré 's work), or it may be a caricature , cartoon , ideograph , or glyph .

  6. Scotland in the Early Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Insular art, or Hiberno-Saxon art, is the name given to the common style produced in Scotland, Britain and Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century, with the combining of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon forms. [106] Surviving examples of Insular art are found in metalwork, carving, but mainly in illuminated manuscripts. Surfaces are highly decorated ...

  7. Scottish art - Wikipedia

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    This ideas were taken up by a new generation, led by the poet Hugh MacDiarmid who argued for a synergy between science and art, the introduction of modernism into art and the creation of a distinctive national art. These ideas were expressed in art in the inter-war period by figures including J. D. Fergusson, Stanley Cursiter (1887–1976 ...

  8. Picts in literature and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Picts are an existing culture, but may later become Scottish. In the 2015 game Total War: Attila the Picts are a playable faction in the Celts DLC Culture Pack. In the 2015 mobile game Fate/Grand Order, Mordred says that the Picts of her time were "far beyond" any tribes or barbarians, and compares them to aliens from modern-day sci-fi movies.

  9. Category:Pictish culture - Wikipedia

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    Pictish art (1 C, 4 P) Pictish language (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Pictish culture" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.

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