except perhaps some comment on a term that has become quite common in this kind of debate: the term insular. In the summer of 1991, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice mounted what must surely have been the most comprehensive exhibition of Celtic art the world has yet seen. The exhibition was entitled I Celti; La Prima Europa and, instead of the usual catalog, there was offered to visitors to the exhibition what must surely be one of the most comprehensive collections of scholarly articles on the Celts