Insular art, also known as
Hiberno-Saxon art, is the style of art produced in the
post-Roman history of the
British Isles. The term derives from
insula, the
Latin term for "island"; in this period Great Britain and Ireland shared a largely common style different from that of the rest of Europe. Art historians usually group insular art as part of the
Migration Period art movement as well as Early Medieval Western art, and it is the combination of these two traditions that give the style its special character.