Finally around 100 BCE Celtic gods are portrayed roman style with the full-length body surrounded by attributes. .
On a Celtic cross the circle represents wholeness, the round contours of the Earth, or female energy, and the cross represents the four directions of movement, or male energy, in the form of the winds, seasons and so on. So the two symbols superimposed express the "both ways state" of being and becoming in harmony or balance.
The art of the Celtic people varies from country to country, A Celtic cross picture from website 12 but the most famous symbol is probably the Celtic knot, a seemingly endless line knotted in many different ways, symbolizing eternal life, whether it is a tattoo or a design on a shirt. Another widely known symbol is the Claddagh, a heart being held by two hands, on the heart is a crown. People can now make a living by re-creating Celtic silver jewelry, or Celtic stone carvings. It was entirely possible that the Celtic artists would have created a mystique around the creation of Celtic art in Christian times. Keeping the construction of the designs a closely guarded secret, which gave its designers similar powers to those of the magician. The earliest knot work was on stone slabs, and metalwork followed the rules of a continuous ribbon of knot. In the middle of the seventh century AD the first interlacing appears in insular book decoration on the colophon page at the end of St Matthew's Gospel in a fragment of the Durham Gospels. This page has an unusual shape of three Ds, one on top of the other.
This is a Claddagh ring, representing friendship, loyalty, and love. The picture is from website 8.
Celtic art isn't only shapes and designs, many pieces were the Celtic knot wrapped around animals, mainly boars, stags, horses, dogs, and wolfs. Animals were important to the Celtics. The horse was especially important because the Celtic people were a horseback riding civilization.
