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===200 to 1150=== [[File:Muiredach s Cross.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Muiredach's High Cross]] at [[Monasterboice]], 10th century]] Material from Ireland with [[La Tène art|La Tène style ornament]] from the third to fifth centuries AD is difficult to demonstrate.<ref>NMI, 134</ref> In the 6th to 8th centuries the art of the newly Christianised Irish mixed with Mediterranean and Germanic traditions through Irish missionary contacts with the [[Anglo-Saxons]], creating what is called [[Insular art]] (or the Hiberno-Saxon style) and the second and best known great period of Irish art. This is exemplified in such masterpieces as the [[Book of Kells]], the [[Ardagh Chalice]] and the [[Tara Brooch]], the most spectacular of about fifty elaborate [[Celtic brooch]]es in precious metal that have been found. The form of the [[illuminated manuscript]] book, new to Ireland, was taken up with enthusiam for luxury books, created in the monasteries, that were kept in the monastery church rather than the library, and were displayed to visitors who would appreciate the decorative styles that were close to those of the personal jewellery of the elite. Most were [[gospel book]]s, with the most elaborate illumination often restricted to a relatively small number of pages with the [[evangelist portrait]]s, their symbols, and abstract [[carpet page]]s. Narrative images were very few. The stone [[high cross]], originally painted, was a distinctive insular type of monument, of which many examples survive. Later in the period, [[Scandinavia]]n influences were added through the [[Vikings]].
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