1 20 51 https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/397/kells2.jpg 7fdb34fe8501aacc7cbead506e0087cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Human Figures Subject The topic of the resource Human Figures Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource The representations of human figures by Celtic Artists were influenced by the Pagan Laws that forbade the copying of the works of the Almighty Creator. In Celtic Zoomorphic ornaments the physical appearance of man was not copied. His legs, arms, body, topknot, hair and beard interlaced with each other. Portraiture of a living person, in his created form was a heinous crime. The portrayal of the Saints of the sacred Gospels in the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne was that of a persons who had long departed from earthly habitation and of the angels who were migrants of the Heavenly Host. - George Bain, Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Book of Kells George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/396/plant_forms.jpg 88cff282a496ee6aaada969748aab4e6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Plant Forms Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource The reference to the plant forms which rarely occur in the Book of Kells and not at all in the Book of Durrow and Lindisfarne, have been used to prove that the two latter books belong to an earlier period. It is the author’s opinion (George Bain), based upon many evidences, that the Book of Lindisfarne is later than the Book of Kells. Foliated ornaments entered Southern Britain with the Roman invasions, and forms of Gothic foliage came with the invaders after the fall of Rome, but they differ from those of the Pictish Stones of East Scotland and those of the Book of Kells. In the portions of that book that have been available to the author for research, namely the “studio” publication in colours, of some of its most important pages, and “Celtic Illuminative Art” in black and white, by Rev. Stanford F.H. Robinson, M.A., the examples, with one exception, emerge from pots or beakers. The extreme minuteness of these examples make it probable that the pots have not been noticed and no known mention of them has hitherto been made. Without any possible doubt, this is a pagan and, later, a Christian symbol and its use was a religious one and not merely decorative. - George Bain, Celtic Art, the Method of Construction. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/394/knotwork_-GB-from-book.png 8d27ffce27c20554b31cad58814247ee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interlace Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource According to artist George Bain, Religion and Pagan laws had the greatest influence on the art form of Celtic knots, playing an important role in there design. The interlacing of human form and Celtic knots evolved from laws forbidding drawing portraits of human figures as this was tantamount to copying a work of the creator, “God the Almighty,” explains Bain in his book Celtic Art. Similarly, it was forbidden to draw animals or plants. Angels and mythic creatures, on the other hand, were not of the earthly realm. And Saints had departed this realm. Thus, Celtic knot patterns were used to represent most of the human form, while heads, appendages and tails were often depicted using more life-like representations. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/393/BainSpirals.jpg e3a6d1bc9432eeaab736421a8115c42e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spirals Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Subject The topic of the resource A spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point. Description An account of the resource The noble spirals of Aberlemno, Shandwick, Tarbat, Hilton of Cadboll, Nigg the Tara Brooch, and the Ardagh chalice led the way to the great art of the scribes, who produced the supreme masterpieces of the world’s decoration of books, profusely embellished with spiral art. The few survivors of a great artistic period, the books of Durrow, Kells, Lindisfarne and St. Chad will shed a light for future generations upon the greatness of the art and the other cultures of the Picts and the Briton. - George Bain - Celtic Art, The methods of Construction. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/342/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-51.jpg 20bb6816c655e5fd068c6ad7dcfe0a26 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Rossie Priory Stone. Subject The topic of the resource Class II symbol stone. One of the most impressive Early Christian monuments of south-east Perth, this cross-slab is in the former church of Rossie, which is now the mausoleum of the Kinnaird family. Decorated in relief on both faces, it measures 1.67m in height, 1.16m in width at the base and up to 0.3m in thickness. The front is decorated with a cross in high relief, lacking the left arm; the cross is ringed and has rounded hollow armpits and a central roundel of interlace. The top arm and shaft are decorated with panels of interlace, while the surviving arm bears key pattern. The panels on either side of the head contain, on the left, a beast with a human head and curling tail; on the other side, a beaked figure holding an axe with both hands attacks a claw-footed bird. On the left side of the shaft are carved a beast with its tail curled over its back; a naked man under attack from a beast and a fish-tailed monster; and a pair of confronted beasts, each swallowing a bird. On the right-hand side of the shaft there is a beast swallowing a serpent; below this there is an animal with a bovine head and large eyes. At the bottom of the slab there is a pair of monsters with human heads, the fins of a fish and beast-headed tails, bodies intertwined, facing in opposite directions, one astride the other; their beards and flowing hair are very clearly shown. On the back of the slab, a second cross, set within an interlaced border, is the dominant feature. There is an animal head just below the left arm of the cross where the interlace begins, with the pattern ending in a fish-like tail below the right arm. The almost equal-armed cross has rounded hollow armpits and a central roundel of key pattern and interlace decoration in the arms, which merges into that of the border. The short shaft and its stepped base are outlined by beading and contain figural decoration: three horsemen ranged vertically form a hunting scene with two further horsemen and a pair of hunting dogs on the right-hand side of the shaft. In the spaces above the side-arms of the cross are carved an angel and a figure holding a pair of birds by the necks. Finally, on the left-hand side of the shaft and pedestal there are a crescent and V-rod, a 'Pictish beast', and a kneeling animal looking back at the head which forms the termination of its tail. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Drawing by George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/341/George_Bain_1881-1968.jpg d4d2176308851a00c2a0d33c08931168 Person An individual. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain - 1881–1968 Subject The topic of the resource born in Scrabster in the far north of Scotland, was an art teacher who almost single-handedly revived interest in Celtic and Insular art. Description An account of the resource His book Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction was published in 1951. It had little impact at the time, but on its re-issue in 1971 it introduced a generation to Celtic knotwork, the Pictish stones, the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow. As well as describing and illustrating over 200 historical examples, his book was notable for giving detailed instructions on creating similar interlace, spiral, and trumpet designs, and encouraging their use in craftwork. Bain's monograph inspired the design for the cover of King Crimson's Discipline album; in later releases, it was replaced by a knotwork designed by Steve Ball, which has also been used the logo of Discipline Global Mobile and Guitar Craft, a music company and a musicians' association each founded by King Crimson's Robert Fripp. A Bain design was also used to illustrate a rug manufactured by Quayle and Tranter, a former manufacturer of carpets based in Kidderminster, England. His son Iain, an engineer, later also wrote two books - "Celtic Knotwork" and "Celtic Key Patterns". The majority of Bain's known existing works are curated by the Groam House Museum in Rosemarkie, Scotland. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/335/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-50.jpg 24ddcde903ad94c04de3e276e6833f44 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Continuous Lines. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Subject The topic of the resource 'Double repeat this odd number - 39 results in a continuous line. The centre is 4 repeats, also a continuous line'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/334/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-49.jpg da0f35f16a2c11f310325c6b3ce848f8 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - 37 spaces. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Subject The topic of the resource 'Odd number, 37 spaces, one continuous line, even number two lines?' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/333/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-48.jpg 8f26e07de64c38133814df0184219022 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Colour Panel. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/332/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-47.jpg 131ffd70c0200bd42f219e0d21c8af4a Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Tara Brooch. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Subject The topic of the resource Tara Brooch. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/331/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-46.jpg a6104de665b96a8965acb483d4d7c709 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Broader Detail. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Subject The topic of the resource 'This design is repeated in the middle of four sides of the border of the page of the Eight Circled Cross of the Book of Kells. The interlacing symbol of the original can be completely covered by a sixpence'. 'This symbol is for Nov 1st, All Saints Day. On a Staffordshire Clogg'. 'Is this a labyrinth? or a symbol of eternity? or when used 4 times on the extreme border, a symbol of 'eternal security?' Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. Book of Kells Eight Circled Cross George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/330/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-45.jpg 40da915baddf4b274c3ab4c27e2cf0fb Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain - commemorative memorial plaque Subject The topic of the resource 'In this place of her choice and her happy childhood, the ashes of Jessie Mackintosh were scattered by her husband George Bain, who hopes to join her here'. Description An account of the resource 'The sudden death of his (George Bain's) wife in 1957 was a tremendous grief to him. In her memory he designed a bronze plaque which marks the resting place of her scattered ashes in the Highlands'. 'George Bain died in Codsall, Staffordshire on 25 March 1968. His ashes were scattered, as he wishes, in the same place as those of his wife, Jessie, beside their joint memorial'. - George Bain, Master of Celtic Art - Susan E Seright Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/329/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-44.jpg da0ccdf1cee246e6daeccb49c0be5cfc Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing from Book of Kells Description An account of the resource Drawing. Subject The topic of the resource Book of Kells. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. Book of Kells George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/328/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-43.jpg 65fa2f029e5f4337abf854717b38bf59 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Sutherland. Description An account of the resource Reconstruction Drawing. 'Above red line, probable reconstruction of the portion of the stone at Collieburn, Sutherland, Scotland'. Key order 24511542 . S - 'above the red line is missing'. Subject The topic of the resource Cist and Cross Slab. The lower part of an upright cross-slab of yellow sandstone was found erect under 7 feet of sand during the railway excavations near Collieburn, Sutherland, Scotland in 1869. It is 5 ft 2 inches high and sculptured in relief on two faces, with double-headed knot-work, a swastika cross, a key pattern and small circular bosses. The slab appears to have been re-used as a door jamb or similar secondary purpose. It is in Dunrobin Museum. George Bains drawing depicts - 'Above red line, probable reconstruction of the portion of the stone (missing) at Collieburn, Sutherland, Scotland'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/327/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-42.jpg 842c981a9223407a5539ea8566cd9d36 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Order of Key. Subject The topic of the resource This drawing highlights a Key Pattern detail from Aberlemno Cross Slab. The well preserved Pictish Cross-Slab in Aberlemno Kirkyard is sculpted with a Celtic Cross in relief and a background of intertwined beasts. The reverse of the Cross-Slab has a panel showing a battle scene with long-haired Pictish warriors fighting Northumbrians wearing helmets with nose guards. There are warriors and horsemen bearing spears, swords and shields, and a dying Northumbrian being pecked by a raven. This is thought to portray the Battle of Dunnichen which took place only 10 km from Aberlemno. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Aberlemno Cross. 'Right arm of Aberlemno Cross'. Correct Order of Key 123494321 -5 12345,10,4321 - C Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/326/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-41.jpg 873676c77301f6cd8bbeef3e6a05873c Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Aberlemno Cross Description An account of the resource Drawing. 'Centre of the Aberlemno Cross'. Subject The topic of the resource This Drawing shows the detail of the spiral arangment from the centre of the celtic cross of the front of the Aberlemno Cross. The well preserved Pictish Cross-Slab in Aberlemno Kirkyard is sculpted with a Celtic Cross in relief and a background of intertwined beasts. The reverse of the Cross-Slab has a panel showing a battle scene with long-haired Pictish warriors fighting Northumbrians wearing helmets with nose guards. There are warriors and horsemen bearing spears, swords and shields, and a dying Northumbrian being pecked by a raven. This is thought to portray the Battle of Dunnichen which took place only 10 km from Aberlemno. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/325/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-40.jpg 835cba8477c8bd307f5f9d1c5e268f16 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Interlacing. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Subject The topic of the resource 'This interlacing is all in one line, one end, the other is opposite'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/324/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-39.jpg b83d8e8f5a13a61571555f0ed450293b Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Horse. Subject The topic of the resource 'This stone and other suggest prehistoric connection with Scottish Celts and Mycenaean etc cultures'. - George Bain. The name Knossos survives from ancient Greek references to the major city of Crete. Knossos is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and is considered Europe's oldest city. Description An account of the resource Drawing. Knossos Tablet, Aberdeen-shire. 'This stone and other suggest prehistoric connection with Scottish Celts and Mycenaean etc cultures'. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/323/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-38.jpg e4dc9e3fec556282ebbedd7c0344834d Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - Trinity Symbol. Subject The topic of the resource Trinity symbol repeated 12 times on this cross. The various contents of the Ulbster Stone Cross. 'These stones and many others on the northern and eastern sides of the Scottish Grampians have no connection with Christianity and are Religious Stones'. 'It is my opinion that this cross bears some support to immigration of the British Celts from West Asia and East Europe by land routs many centuries before the founding of Rome'. 'Commencing with the cross which was old in Asia and Europe in 6000 BC and latter became known as the 'Greek Cross' the designer-Priest put a diagonal cross of the Celts into its 5 parts. This again was converted into the Trinity Symbol 12 times, perhaps the central group of 4 parts has Eastern Mediterranean influences, like the Maltese Cross with it's double pointed or forked arms'. Description An account of the resource Drawing with text. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/322/GeorgeBain-LargeDrawings-37.jpg 446ce0190e3b1ee521540127ff1b0622 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource George Bain Drawing - The Cross from Ulbster Stone. Subject The topic of the resource Class II symbol stone. This drawing shows the cross detail on the back of the stone. Also on the back of the stone is an elephant over a salmon, a crescent and V-rod over a beast, a fish-monster over a step and a double-disc over a double-crescent. On the face of the stone, above another cross is carved a cow and other animals. Below the cross are two kneeling figures with a cauldron together with a horse and a colt. Below these is a serpent and a flower to the right. Description An account of the resource Drawing. 'The Ulbster Stone, Caithness, Scotland. Now in Thurso Museum'. . Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George Bain. George Bain