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Standing Stones in Art & Prints

Standing stones in art can record ancient monuments, evoke a landscape or become part of an imaginative relationship with the past.

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About Standing Stones in Art

Artists may attend to the scale, surface and placement of stones within changing weather and light. A documented site offers one kind of subject; an invented or altered arrangement offers another. Their meanings depend on both the represented place and the artwork's own date.

A modern picture is not evidence of an ancient monument's original use. Read source information carefully before assigning a specific ritual function, location or historical identity to the stones depicted.

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Historical art prints are modern reproductions. Dates and attributions describe the original artworks.

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