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The Lindisfarne Gospels
An accessible book on this masterpiece of book painting.
Janet Backhouse
Editions:
Price: USD$19.95
200 points- Paperback
- English
- 280 x 215 mm, 11 x 8 1/2 in
- 96 pp
- 31 colour illustrations, 36 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714824611
- ISBN-10: 0714824615
- The first book to make the Lindisfarne Gospels - one of the world's masterpieces of book painting - available to a wider public
- This precious relic of early Christianity in England was produced at the end of the 7th century in honour of Saint Cuthbert, and is one of Britain's greatest treasures
- Important illuminated pages are reproduced in colour from a new and accurate set of photographs
- Discusses the process by which the manuscript was made, and relates it to earlier and contemporary works of art
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