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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. forty-eight pages and details in colour from the manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin For those not wanting to take the trek to Trinity College in Dublin to lay eyes on the Library’s most famous manuscript; fear not as you can get a glimpse in our own library. Never mind that the manuscript is in Latin as the shear beauty of the writing and illustrations speak volumes! All 4 gospels are represented: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This is one of the more difficult manuscripts to study as there are 680 pages and even this book, as most, only show the most famous illustrations. Great background information is given on the history of the book and how its origin came to be. There are far more illustration plates than text in this book. This is a must read for anyone who likes illumination or wants to re-kindle the flame of creating their own illustrated masterpiece. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The Book of Kells is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. It is a masterpiece of medieval art--a brilliantly illuminated copy of the four Gospels with full-page illustrations of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists and a wealth of smaller decorative painting. The strange, half-surrealist imagination displayed in its pages, the impeccable technique and the very fine state of preservation make it an object of endless fascination. The editor has chosen the most important of the large illustrations plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail--arabesques, interlaced patterns, weird and witty monsters and grotesqueries. He has also provided a scholarly analysis of these exuberant inventions, the artists, the text and the writing, and a full account of its historical background.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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